1619 Proud UNC Alumni

We are University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni outraged by the Board of Trustees’ failure to approve a tenured professorship for UNC alumna and founder of The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Dismissing a list of merits that includes winning a Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Award, and MacArthur “Genius” Grant is an attempt to penalize Nikole Hannah-Jones for her groundbreaking and unvarnished reporting of American history. We demand that the Board of Trustees immediately revisit this matter, grant tenure as recommended by the appropriate faculty, Dean, and Provost, and restore the integrity of our University.

We are raising funds to pay for an advertisement in the News & Observer that lends our voice to those calling for concrete action by the Board of Trustees.

Any additional funds raised over what is needed to pay for the ad will be donated to the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which was founded by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ron Nixon, Corey Johnson and Topher Sanders to provide the training and mentorship necessary for journalists of color to compete and succeed in investigative reporting positions. For more information, visit 
https://idabwellssociety.org/about/our-creation-story/


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