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Event 2: Hannah-Jones/UNC Tenure Controversy
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Howard University is proud to announce Nikole Hannah-Jones & Ta-Nehisi Coates will join the HU faculty to help educate the next generation of black journalists. The appointments are supported by nearly $20 million donated by four donors.
— Howard University (@HowardU) July 6, 2021
Read more here: https://t.co/7JILEjOlNd pic.twitter.com/7i8oNTU15C
The story about the discrimination I faced in the UNC tenure debacle was broken by excellent local reporter @JoekillianPW. So I gave him the exclusive print interview. Local news matters. Please support @NCPolicyWatch and other local news. https://t.co/NX856jNRFb
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 6, 2021
If you read nothing else on this platform today, take a moment and read the entire statement from @nhannahjones on her decision not to take the Knight Chair at UNC, and to teach instead as a tenured professor at @HowardU. https://t.co/MZ3YsKLiKk
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 6, 2021
NEW: Nikole Hannah-Jones has REJECTED UNC's tenure offer and will be accepting a tenured position at Howard University instead https://t.co/CE92nNSe2T
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 6, 2021
I was today years old when I learned that the National Black Farmer Association provides scholarships from $2,500 to $5,000 for Black students pursuing agriculture-related studies. Please share, so we can farm for the culture. (Citation: Farming While Black, 2018)
— jayson m porter (@RogueChieftan) July 5, 2021
"I have never asked for special treatment. I did not seek it here. All I asked was to be judged by my credentials and treated fairly and equally."@nhannahjones' official statement on declining the tenure offer from UNC Chapel Hill: https://t.co/eMgYqRXbTL
— Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) July 6, 2021
Whew. This thread. Much, much respect to @JoekillianPW, a dogged, smart, well-sourced reporter, the one who broke the UNC tenure story in the first place. https://t.co/zPs5gVj60d
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 6, 2021
By now, you may have heard that @nhannahjones has decided to take a tenured job at Howard University despite being offered tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill months after her case first came before the Board of Trustees. (1/n)
— Deen Freelon (@dfreelon) July 6, 2021
"I have decided that instead of fighting to prove I belong at an institution that until 1955 prohibited Black Americans from attending, I am instead going to work in the legacy of a university not built by the enslaved but for those who once were."
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) July 6, 2021
This is how it's done.🔥 https://t.co/5WBB7zgwEy
Nikole and Ta-Nehisi have both done so much to pave the way for younger writers coming behind them. I’m so excited for them, I’m thrilled for Howard, and I feel so lucky to be writing in the world at the same time as so many other Black writers doing beautiful, remarkable work.
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) July 6, 2021