[ti:Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Takes Job at Howard University after Tenure Fight]
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[00:00.04]Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,
[00:04.76]decided on Tuesday she would not accept a position
[00:09.48]at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
[00:13.80]but, rather, would continue her career by accepting a position
[00:19.00]at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
[00:24.16]Howard University is a private,
[00:27.00]historically black university in the nation's capital.
[00:32.36]Hannah-Jones and her supporters fought hard
[00:36.52]to get a tenured professorship at UNC.
[00:41.68]Tenure is a life-time appointment for a professor.
[00:47.20]The university first denied tenure for Hannah-Jones,
[00:51.84]saying it was concerned about her ideas and her teaching ability.
[00:59.00]Black students, Black professors and other professionals
[01:03.28]questioned the university's opinion
[01:06.04]and its commitment to free speech and diversity.
[01:11.96]Hannah-Jones developed The 1619 Project for The New York Times.
[01:18.68]The collection of stories looked at the history of the United States
[01:23.28]starting with the arrival of enslaved people.
[01:27.60]It centers on the economic and social effects
[01:31.44]of the free labor provided by the enslaved people.
[01:36.44]The idea of examining history in this way
[01:39.56]is controversial in many states.
[01:43.32]Some public school teachers in states controlled by Republican leaders
[01:48.56]are not allowed to teach about the project in their classes.
[01:53.96]Last week, after weeks of criticism and days of protests from students,
[02:00.72]the university finally decided to offer Hannah-Jones
[02:05.36]a life-long position at its journalism school.
[02:10.88]On Tuesday, Hannah-Jones said she could not accept
[02:15.32]work at the university's journalism school,
[02:18.68]which is named after Walter Hussman.
[02:23.20]Hussman is a wealthy Arkansas newspaper publisher
[02:27.36]who gave $25 million to UNC.
[02:32.96]He also campaigned against giving Hannah-Jones tenure.
[02:38.76]"I cannot imagine working at ... a school
[02:41.92]named for a man who lobbied against me," Hannah-Jones wrote.
[02:47.52]She added that Hussman "ignored" her years of work
[02:51.64]and her credentials because he believed The 1619 Project
[02:58.24]was about "the denigration of White Americans."
[03:02.56]She also wrote that she could not work
[03:05.96]at a university whose leadership "permitted this conduct
[03:10.52]and has done nothing to disavow it."
[03:14.20]Hannah-Jones is not the only well-known Black writer
[03:18.24]to receive a position at Howard University on Tuesday.
[03:23.88]Howard also employed Ta-Nehesi Coates.
[03:27.68]Coates writes about the struggles of Black people in America.
[03:32.40]His 2015 book Between the World and Me
[03:36.92]won a National Book Award.
[03:40.44]United States Vice-President Kamala Harris
[03:44.00]attended Howard University in the 1980s.
[03:47.80]It is one of several historically Black colleges and universities in the U.S.
[03:55.36]They are schools founded to support the education of Black people
[04:00.08]at a time when many universities did not accept Black students.
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