{"id":583866,"date":"2021-07-06T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583866"},"modified":"2021-07-06T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:36:05","slug":"nikole-hannah-jones-humiliates-unc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikole-hannah-jones-humiliates-unc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikole Hannah-Jones Humiliates UNC"},"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\">8<\/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%2Fnikole-hannah-jones-humiliates-unc%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=583866&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 readability=\"29.443113772455\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Award-winning &#8216;genius&#8217; rejects tenure offer, will join Howard University instead<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unc-dunk-736x518-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unc-dunk-e1625587218384.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unc-dunk-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unc-dunk-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unc-dunk-697x491.jpg 697w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 July 6, 2021 12:18 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"95.779059449867\">\n<p>Less than a week after the University of North Carolina board of trustees approved tenure for&nbsp;Nikole Hannah-Jones, the <em>New York Times<\/em> opinion journalist publicly humiliated her alma mater by accepting a competing offer from Howard University.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nikole-hannah-jones-unc-howard-university-6e192586fbbc0b8788db9613314a444e?utm_campaign=socialflow&amp;utm_medium=ap&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p>WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not teach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill following an extended fight over tenure there, and instead will take a tenured position at Howard University, which has scored another major recruiting victory in the hiring of author Ta-Nehisi Coates.<\/p>\n<p>UNC initially offered Hannah-Jones a job without tenure after a board member challenged her teaching credentials, provoking weeks of tension. The trustees ultimately approved tenure last week, voting 9-4 to accept her application at a special meeting with a closed-door session that sparked a protest by her supporters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In accordance with the longstanding journalistic practice of not making oneself the center of a story, Hannah-Jones announced her decision Tuesday during an appearance on <em>CBS This Morning<\/em>, in an exclusive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpolicywatch.com\/2021\/07\/06\/nikole-hannah-jones-declines-unc-tenure-offer-heads-to-howard-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> published with <em>NC Policy Watch<\/em>, and in a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naacpldf.org\/press-release\/nikole-hannah-jones-issues-statement-on-decision-to-decline-tenure-offer-at-university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill-and-to-accept-knight-chair-appointment-at-howard-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> posted by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve spent my entire life fighting to prove that I belonged and deserved to be in predominantly white institutions,&#8221; Hannah-Jones told <em>NC Policy Watch<\/em>. &#8220;When this whole story broke and I learned more and more about what happened in the background, I decided that wasn&#8217;t the fight I wanted anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the formal statement explaining her decision, Hannah-Jones described a &#8220;very dark&#8221; period in the weeks since she accepted UNC&#8217;s offer of a five-year contract worth $900,000. Academic experts told the <em>Washington<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Free Beacon<\/em> the university <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/profs-scoff-at-nikole-hannah-jones-tenure-suit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the right call<\/a> by not immediately granting tenure to the controversial journalist, who lacked the requisite academic experiences and whose work has been denounced by history scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, critics assailed UNC&#8217;s decision, prompting Hannah-Jones to withdraw her acceptance of the offer and demand tenure. UNC ultimately gave Hannah-Jones what she wanted, but it wasn&#8217;t good enough. &#8220;At some point when you have proven yourself and fought your way into institutions that were not built for you, when you&#8217;ve proven you can compete and excel at the highest level, you have to decide that you are done forcing yourself in,&#8221; she said in her statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah-Jones will presumably be compensated even more generously at Howard, where she&nbsp;will serve as the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at the Center for Journalism and Democracy.&nbsp;The position is being funded in part by nearly $20 million in donations from the Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and one anonymous donor.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrity intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates, a Howard alum who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/the-wages-of-woke-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charges<\/a> up to $40,000 for his public lectures on racism,&nbsp;will join Hannah-Jones at the university. Prior to the controversy surrounding her $900,000 contract offer from UNC, Hannah-Jones was best known for violating Twitter&#8217;s terms of service (and the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018s own social media guidelines) by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nikole-hannah-jones-scrubs-social-media-after-doxxing-free-beacon-reporter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doxxing<\/a> a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reporter and suffering no consequences after refusing to apologize.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Award-winning &#8216;genius&#8217; rejects tenure offer, will join Howard University instead  Andrew Stiles \u2022 July 6, 2021 12:18 pm Less than a week after the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2314069,"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\/07\/unc-dunk-736x518-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Nikole Hannah-Jones Humiliates UNC","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/unc-dunk-736x518-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Nikole Hannah-Jones Humiliates UNC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583866","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}