Nikole Hannah-Jones

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• SOURCE: North Carolina Policywatch
  4/6/2022
  

  Documents Show UNC Conducted "Sweeping and Disturbing" Investigation of Faculty over Donor Agreement Leaks

  When faculty leaked documents showing a large donor's involvement in the Nikole Hannah-Jones debacle, the University of North Carolina took aggressive action to identify the leakers. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  3/30/2022
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones: Book Bans "Inevitable Backlash" to 2020 Protest Wave

  The journalist cited historian Timothy Snyder's argument that authoritarianism relies on restricting national understanding of civic identity in ways that serve existing power. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/19/2022
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Angered a Crowd with an MLK Day Speech. The Words Were MLK's

  “If you haven’t read, in entirety, his speeches, you’ve been miseducated and I hope that you will,” Hannah-Jones said on Twitter.

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  11/17/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Brian Lehrer Show

  With the release of the expanded book version of her 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones is back in the spotlight, for admirers and critics alike. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/9/2021
  

  NYT Magazine's Silverstein: 1619 Is Part of Long Battle over Telling the Nation's Story

  by Jake Silverstein

  The continuing debate over the 1619 project shows that what we call "history" is inseparable from the process of historiography, which has never been free of bitter conflict and disagreement.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/21/2021
  

  Before Nikole Hannah-Jones, Howard U. Professor Sterling Brown was a Lightning Rod for Right-Wing Outrage

  by Carole Emberton

  Sterling Brown also engendered political opposition and debate about what constitutes U.S. history when he tried to center the narrative on the diverse experiences of Black Americans.

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• SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  7/6/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement After Passing Up UNC for Howard University

  “I cannot imagine working at and advancing a school named for a man who lobbied against me, who used his wealth to influence the hires and ideology of the journalism school, who ignored my 20 years of journalism experience, all of my credentials, all of my work, because he believed that a project that centered Black Americans equaled the denigration of white Americans."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  6/30/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Finally Has Been Granted Tenure. But the Damage Is Already Done.

  It's uncertain that the Board of Trustees' decision to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones will lead her to join the University of North Carolina, and unlikely that the decision will erase the damage done by conservative interference in university governance. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/30/2021
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones Granted Tenure by UNC Trustees

  The vote was 9-4, after a number of protesters were removed from the room. It is not now known if Hannah-Jones will now accept the appointment at UNC. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/29/2021
  

  Finally: Tenure Vote for Hannah-Jones

  by Colleen Flaherty

  The Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hold a special meeting Wednesday, reportedly to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/2/2021
  

  The Conservative Disinformation Campaign Against Nikole Hannah-Jones

  by Alice Marwick and Daniel Kreiss

  Two of Nikole Hannah-Jones's prospective UNC colleagues describe the pressure to prevent her being hired with tenure a part of a long pattern of conservative political activism using disinformation and distortion as weapons to control what is taught at universities.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  5/25/2021
  

  We Stand in Solidarity With Nikole Hannah-Jones

  by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Martha S. Jones

  "The University’s Board of Trustees has failed to uphold the first order values of academic freedom and the free exchange of ideas. And too many lawmakers have wrongly deemed it their role to reach into classrooms and tell educators what to teach and how to teach it."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/25/2021
  

  Academic Tenure Is Broken. Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Case Makes That Clear

  by William Egginton

  Many academics have objected to political interference in the University of North Carolina's decision to ignore the faculty recommendation to tenure Nikole Hannah-Jones as a Knight Foundation Chair of Journalism. This incident should not obscure the ways that the tenure system entrenches inequality when it works properly. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/24/2021
  

  We Have Criticized Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her Tenure Denial Is a Travesty

  by Keith E. Whittington and Sean Wilentz

  Two scholarly critics of Nikole Hannah-Jones's 1619 Project say that the actions of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/23/2021
  

  What is at Stake with Nikole Hannah-Jones Being Denied Tenure

  by Siva Vaidhyanathan

  "For more than a decade a powerful conservative cabal has been undermining academic research, freedom and excellence at what was until recently the pride of that rising and growing state."

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• SOURCE: NC Policy Watch
  5/19/2021
  

  PW Special Report: After Conservative Criticism, UNC Backs Down From Offering Acclaimed Journalist Tenured Position

  “This is a very political thing,” the trustee said. “The university and the board of trustees and the Board of Governors and the legislature have all been getting pressure since this thing was first announced last month. There have been people writing letters and making calls, for and against. But I will leave it to you which is carrying more weight.”

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• SOURCE: TeenVogue
  5/19/2021
  

  Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards

  by Asheesh Kapur Siddique

  The real power at American universities lies with their boards of directors, which are increasingly drawn from the ranks of corporate America and have shown themselves willing to enforce ideological restrictions on teaching and research.