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# 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
- URL: https://werd.io/nikole-hannah-jones-issues-statement-on-decision-to-decline-tenure-offer/
- Published: 2021-07-06T14:24:31.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-06T14:24:31.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“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.”

\[[Link](https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/nikole-hannah-jones-issues-statement-on-decision-to-decline-tenure-offer-at-university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill-and-to-accept-knight-chair-appointment-at-howard-university/)\]