By D'Shonda Brown ·July 6, 2021July 6, 2021
Today, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has officially announced her rejection of a tenure offer from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Instead, she will be joining the top-ranking HBCU Howard University as a professor. This morning, Hannah-Jones released a statement submitted to ESSENCE on behalf of herself, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and co-counsel Levy Ratner, PC and Ferguson, Chambers & Sumter P.A.
“I will always be a Tar Heel. I remain grateful for all the university has given me and am committed to a lifetime of paying it forward,” Hannah-Jones said in an official statement. “And I am so excited to now call myself a Bison as well as join the Howard family of which I have long desired to belong.”
In her statement, Hannah-Jones announced her new position as the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at Howard University.While her role officially begins this summer, the “1619 Project” creator will be leading the Center for Journalism and Democracy, an initiative focused on training aspiring Black journalists “to cover the crisis of our democracy and bolstering journalism programs” across other historically Black institutions across the country.
The Center for Journalism and Democracy will “help produce journalists capable of accurately and urgently covering the perilous challenges of our democracy with a clarity, skepticism, rigor, and historical dexterity that is too often missing from today’s journalism,” Hannah-Jones described in her statement.
Hannah-Jones has already assisted in efforts to secure $15 million with the help of grants from Ford, Knight, and MacArthur foundations and has a set goal of $25 million.
There’s more. https://t.co/4f2lU7gn3s
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 6, 2021Not only will Hannah-Jones be joining the Bison gang, but another literary powerhouse will be right by her side. As reported by HuffPost, Ta-Nehisi Coates will also join Howard’s faculty, which he attended in the ’90s. The ‘Between The World And Me’ author will become the Sterling Brown Chair in the Department of English at Howard’s College of Arts and Sciences.
“This is the faculty that molded me,” Coates said according to the MacArthur Foundation site. “This is the faculty that strengthened me. Personally, I know of no higher personal honor than this.”
“This is the faculty that molded me. This is the faculty that strengthened me. Personally, I know of no higher personal honor than this.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates. pic.twitter.com/2mYszI8XJi
— MacArthur Foundation (@macfound) July 6, 2021According to the MacArthur Foundation website, both Coates and Hannah-Jones are recipients of the MacArthur “genius” grant, an exceptional five-year fellowship honored by those “who show exceptional creativity in their work.”
Check out some of Twitter’s reactions to this literary flex link-up going down at Howard:
Well played, Howard. Very well played. Congrats @nhannahjones! This is a coup for my alma mater! https://t.co/ZJIaKFbRjT
— Brittney Cooper (@ProfessorCrunk) July 6, 2021And her friend, Ta-Nehisi Coates, is going with her. Gangsta sh*t. 
https://t.co/veWqeYUSJG
AND STILL HOWARD UNIVERSITY RISES! 
#Top50Loading #HBCU https://t.co/yIftpi1WgG
Both Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates are joining Howard's faculty.Hell. Yeah. https://t.co/AO2kkKZo6E
— Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) July 6, 2021Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones to Howard stuntin on nem going to an HBCU pic.twitter.com/3t4NLSA9Dg
— 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 (@exavierpope) July 6, 2021“I hope that the decision that Ta-Nehisi and I made to bring our talents to an HBCU will lead others to make a similar choice,” @nhannahjoneshttps://t.co/eLg4a4k4jR
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) July 6, 2021Slay, @nhannahjones 
"Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates to join Howard University faculty" #BlackLivesMatterhttps://t.co/A8pqtRshwb
(@xtinahuntwood) July 6, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones put the lawyer squeeze on UNC, had them approve her tenure, then took her talents to Howard and pulled up with Ta-Nehisi Coates to boot. That’s a Black superheroine flex pic.twitter.com/8xTosEOSNC
— 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 (@exavierpope) July 6, 2021TOPICS: Howard University nikole hannah-jones Ta-Nehisi Coates University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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