‘1619 Project’ creator Nikole Hannah-Jones turns down tenure at UNC to join Howard University’s faculty with Ta-Nehisi Coates

'1619 Project' creator and Pulitzer-Price-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has turned down a tenure offer at the University of North Carolina to join Howard University's faculty alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates.

She made the announcement on "CBS This Morning," and released a further statement calling out her alma mater and saying she would be taking a position at Howard as the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting.

"I will be creating a new initiative aimed at training aspiring journalists to cover the crisis of our democracy and bolstering journalism programs at historically Black colleges and universities across the country," she said.

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