Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss joining Howard University’s faculty this fall. Nikole Hannah-Jones explains why she chose to go to Howard University after being offered tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill, after this institution first denied tenure to this celebrated journalist, leading to a public outcry.
Nikole Hannah-Jones announced the establishment of the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard. https://t.co/7L1pDNrdy5
— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) July 7, 2021
The $5 million grant from the Knight Foundation, the third funder, will include a $500,000 investment to launch a symposium that aims to strengthen the teaching of journalism across various historically Black colleges and universities, according to a statement from the foundation, which has an endowed chair of journalism at Florida A&M University, which is also a historically Black college.TODAY: @HowardU’s new Knight Chair in Race and Journalism will help train the next generation of Black journalists. Howard has selected @nhannahjones as the inaugural chair. Knight president @ibarguen shares more about the new role: https://t.co/AnOMPBJFuT
— Knight Foundation (@knightfdn) July 6, 2021
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