CNN columnist claims conservative power in academia helped keep 1619 Project founder off UNC faculty
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A CNN columnist claimed Thursday that 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones ultimately lost her offer for a prestigious tenured position at the University of North Carolina because of a preponderance of conservative power in U.S. academia
However, earlier this week, the offer was reportedly rescinded and she is instead under consideration for a fixed five-year contract as a professor of practice. In a Thursday column, Nicole Hemmer, an associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project at Columbia University, claimed an undue might of the right-wing in American academia is the root of Hannah-Jones' ouster. Hannah-Jones 1619 Project claims America's founding was in that year – when the first slaves arrived in what would become the United States – and that the nation is therefore rooted in racism and bigotry, rather than the individual liberty, self-governance, and religious freedom that belies its actual 1776 founding.More Related News