{"id":460307,"date":"2021-04-27T22:20:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460307"},"modified":"2021-04-27T22:20:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:20:28","slug":"im-so-excited-nikole-hannah-jones-of-1619-project-assumes-unc-knight-chair-in-race-and-investigative-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-so-excited-nikole-hannah-jones-of-1619-project-assumes-unc-knight-chair-in-race-and-investigative-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m So Excited\u2019: Nikole Hannah-Jones Of 1619 Project Assumes UNC \u2018Knight Chair In Race And Investigative Journalism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fim-so-excited-nikole-hannah-jones-of-1619-project-assumes-unc-knight-chair-in-race-and-investigative-journalism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460307&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-85.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Nikole Hannah-Jones, a journalist for The New York Times who is responsible for the 1619 Project, is joining the faculty of her alma mater at the\u00a0University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to teach journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones, who received a master\u2019s degree from the school in 2003, will assume its Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism while remaining employed at The New York Times, according to an announcement from UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a full-circle moment for me as I return to the place that launched my career to help launch the careers of other aspiring journalists,\u201d Hannah-Jones tweeted on Monday. \u201cI\u2019m so excited to continue mentoring students from the classroom and for all I will learn from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.457142857143\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a full-circle moment for me as I return to the place that launched my career to help launch the careers of other aspiring journalists. I&#8217;m so excited to continue mentoring students from the classroom and for all I will learn from them. Oh, and I&#8217;ll still be at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/htCpodmTlE\">https:\/\/t.co\/htCpodmTlE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhannahjones\/status\/1386693808381997058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hannah-Jones, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/nikole-hannah-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not published<\/a> a piece for The New York Times since June of last year, won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/reporting-editing\/2020\/nikole-hannah-jones-essay-from-the-1619-project-wins-commentary-pulitzer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary<\/a> for her essay in \u201cThe New York Times Magazine,\u201d which was titled, \u201cOur democracy\u2019s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article argues that the American Revolution was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/11\/magazine\/an-update-to-the-1619-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">motivated by the urge to protect slavery<\/a>\u201d and that plantation slavery was the model for modern American capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>The Pulitzer Prize Board described it as \u201ca sweeping, deeply reported and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America\u2019s story, prompting public conversation about the nation\u2019s founding and evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the story of a leader returning to a place that transformed her life and career trajectory,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/hussman.unc.edu\/news\/pulitzer-prize-winning-macarthur-%E2%80%98genius%E2%80%99-nikole-hannah-jones-new-york-times-become-knight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Susan King, dean of UNC Hussman. \u201cGiving back is part of Nikole\u2019s DNA, and now one of the most respected investigative journalists in America will be working with our students on projects that will move their careers forward and ignite critically important conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, said,\u00a0\u201cNikole Hannah-Jones is one of the finest journalists of her generation, the rare mix of major investigative reporter and big-voiced writer. But she is much more than that. She is a born teacher and mentor. She demands that the industry hold itself to the highest standard. I cannot imagine anyone better to bridge the worlds of journalism, history and education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, a group of scholars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/profoundly-flawed-group-of-scholars-call-for-pulitzer-prize-to-be-revoked-from-1619-project-author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demanded<\/a> that Hannah-Jones be stripped of her Pulitzer Prize for her essay, which they described as \u201cprofoundly flawed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2020 Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in \u2018The 1619 Project,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/blogs\/article\/pulitzer-board-must-revoke-nikole-hannah-jones-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the statement begins<\/a>, which was signed by 21 professors, academics, and historians. \u201cThat essay was entitled, \u2018Our democracy\u2019s founding ideals were false when they were written.\u2019 But it turns out the article itself was false when written, making a large claim that protecting the institution of slavery was a primary motive for the American Revolution, a claim for which there is simply no evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times eventually had to retract portions of the 1619 Project\u2019s claims after scholars <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/24\/scholars-are-eviscerating-the-new-york-times-1619-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eviscerated<\/a> its claims.<\/p>\n<p>Among the historians who excoriated the 1619 Project was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/not-the-way-to-do-history-princeton-university-historian-blasts-1619-project-as-historical-sloppiness-unworthy-of-pulitzer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen C. Guelzo<\/a>, who serves as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jmp.princeton.edu\/announcements\/allen-c-guelzo-joins-princeton-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">senior research scholar<\/a> in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and director of the James Madison Program\u2019s Initiative in Politics and Statesmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Guelzo dismantled what he described as the \u201chistorical sloppiness\u201d of the 1619 Project during an interview last year with The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1619 Project A Misrepresentation Of History | Allen Guelzo on Ben Shapiro Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kfy89mRW1SQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/profoundly-flawed-group-of-scholars-call-for-pulitzer-prize-to-be-revoked-from-1619-project-author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Profoundly Flawed\u2019: Group Of Scholars Call For Pulitzer Prize To Be Revoked From 1619 Project Author<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><em>member<\/em><\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikole Hannah-Jones, a journalist for The New York Times who is responsible for the 1619 Project, is joining the faculty of her alma mater at the\u00a0University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276877,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-85.png","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018I\u2019m So Excited\u2019: Nikole Hannah-Jones Of 1619 Project Assumes UNC \u2018Knight Chair In Race And Investigative Journalism\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-85.png","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018I\u2019m So Excited\u2019: Nikole Hannah-Jones Of 1619 Project Assumes UNC \u2018Knight Chair In Race And Investigative Journalism\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}