Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones turns down UNC for Howard

Nikole Hannah-Jones has decided to take a tenured position at an HBCU after going through a contentious and lengthy process to receive a lifetime appointment at UNC-Chapel Hill. Howard University announced Tuesday morning that the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and another prominent Black journalist, Ta-Nehisi Coates, would be joining the Howard faculty with a lifetime appointment. "I am so incredibly honored to be joining one of the most important and storied educational institutions in our…