Earlier this month, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead author of The New York Times’ controversial (and historically dubious) 1619 Project and an apparent supporter of the Cuban regime, declined an offer of tenure from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. If one recalls, she had initially been denied tenure, with her lack of academic credentials and the fact that the 1619 Project’s conclusions have been widely challenged by historians being cited as likely reasons.
As one has come to expect by now, however, the university’s leadership caved amid the backlash to the initial decision, which was replete with accusations of (you guessed it) “racism” and allegations of conservative intolerance to opposing viewpoints. The trustees then voted to offer tenure to Hannah-Jones, only for her to then thumb her nose at Chapel Hill’s change of heart.
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