Says Nikole Hannah-Jones, quoted in "Nikole Hannah-Jones to join Howard faculty after UNC tenure controversy/Author Ta-Nehisi Coates is also set to join the faculty of Howard, a historically Black university in the nation’s capital" (WaPo).
Hannah-Jones will also found a Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard. She said it will aim to train journalism students from historically Black schools to “accurately and urgently [cover] the challenges of our democracy with a clarity, skepticism, rigor and historical dexterity that is too often missing from today’s journalism.”
Meanwhile, Coates "will be a writer-in-residence in the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, and hold the Sterling Brown chair in the English department." We're told he "also has plans to finish his bachelor’s degree, which he started at Howard in 1993."
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Amadeus 48 writes:
"This is an interesting development. Is it a step back to segregation? Are the historically black colleges a better landing place for Coates and Hannah- Jones? Will they be treated with kid gloves? Will they be taken more seriously?
"I don’t think that Coates and Hannah-Jones will be lionized any more at Howard then they would be at UNC. I think the two are not afraid of being savaged at historically white universities because I think they know it wouldn’t happen. I think they are showing contempt for the thing that white progressive academics value and hold so dear: tenure at a large state university."
Owen writes:
"Well, I guess Nicole really showed those UNC Trustees a thing or two! Got them to abandon all principle and then dumped them anyway.
"I wonder if UNC can seek to recover for the time and money they wasted in negotiating in good faith with a candidate who, it would seem, never had any intention of accepting an offer; just wanted to humiliate the school."
Temujin writes:
"Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates should slip a thank you note to former President Trump for his work to save the Historically Black Colleges. His team drove the bill, arranged by both parties and signed by Trump, that permanently provides more than $250 Million to HBCs and keeps them operating and moving forward. Without the bill signed, there would have been some that may not have survived much longer.
"One wonders if Howard U would have been able to make the offers to celebrity 'Professors' without that guaranteed extra funding. I doubt it."
Robert writes:
"Plans to teach a journalism of "clarity, skepticism, rigor and historical dexterity."
"Truth and accuracy were not mentioned."
RB writes:
"The perfect outcome for a world-class grifter. Get what she wanted after creating turmoil on campus, and then say "No thanks you racists! You took too long to decide in my favor!" UNC looks like an idiot after being played by a professional."
Nancy writes:
"Her stated objectives are contradictory. Covering with urgency means not caring about accuracy. And historical dexterity, her personal forte, is the opposite of rigor."
Eric writes:
"I think there's a fine vein of Woke outrage to be mined from HCBUs, attacking them for adopting White pedagogical structures and values, instead of creating an authentically Black experience. They have been one of the primary engines developing the Black bourgeoisie for more than a century, which makes them a perfect target for Marxists and Marxist-derivatives. I wonder if the attack will come from Nikole Hannah-Jones, or at her, now that she's at Howard."
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