Nikole Hannah-Jones
"I am obligated to fight back against a wave of anti-democratic suppression that seeks to ... silence Black voices and chill free speech," the journalist said.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faced backlash when the Pulitzer-winning journalist was not given a tenured position upon her appointment.
The University of North Carolina's failure to offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones upon her appointment is shameful, several public figures wrote.
"We demand explanations from the university’s leadership at all levels,” their statement read.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Pulitzer-winning journalist said efforts to censor the project, which examines American racism since 1619, are about "trying to prohibit the teaching of ideas they don’t like."
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discusses "The 1619 Project," as well as education equality in the age of coronavirus.
"What’s important is to say how and why does it happen, and that then helps us explain America to itself because the experience of black people is the experience of America."