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Pulitzer Prize-winning jouranalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said the left hasn’t gotten “mad enough” in opposing the “culture war that has been contrived by the right wing” that has led to laws banning schools from teaching things such as her 1619 Project.
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The dean of the school of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the effort to bring award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to her faculty, says she's stepping down. Susan King issued a statement to the faculty of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media on Tuesday.
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At historically black colleges and universities, Hannah-Jones' decision is being celebrated as an important step toward redefining which schools should be considered among the most prestigious.
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The fight over Nikole Hannah-Jones and tenure at UNC Chapel Hill has been a major controversy in North Carolina over the past few weeks — one that drew national attention. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his On My Mind commentary, wonders what it would feel like if you stripped the problem down to its essence.
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Some of the week's biggest stories: Mecklenburg County and CMS move on from their dispute over $56 million, Nikole Hannah-Jones moves on from UNC, and Mecklenburg's health director plans to move on to retirement after leading COVID-19 efforts.
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A coalition of groups representing Black students, faculty, and staff met Wednesday to outline their priorities to create a safer, more equitable campus.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones' decision to join the faculty at Howard University rather than UNC Chapel Hill follows an extended and public fight over whether UNC would give her tenure. Joe Killian of the left-leaning NC Policy Watch, who has interviewed both Hannah-Jones and Walter Hussman Jr., the major donor who emailed concerns about Hannah Jones to university leaders, joins WFAE's "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn.
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Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not teach at UNC Chapel Hill following an extended fight over tenure. She said she would instead take up the tenured Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at Howard University, a historically Black school in Washington.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's trustees' earlier refusal to take up her case inspired a bruising national debate over race, journalism and academic freedom.
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Trustees of North Carolina's flagship public university are going to meet behind closed doors amid intense criticism of their decision not to offer tenure to investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.