The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill has decided not to tenure a role that will be occupied by lauded Black journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones .   Hannah-Jones was on track to teach at her alma mater in the Hussman School of Media and Journalism as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism this July, a role that typically comes with the expectation of tenure, 19th News reported .  However, the plan will not come to fruition with the school’s seeming sudden change of heart, which many have deemed to be based on anti-academic freedom ideologies. She's instead being offered a fixed-term, five-year contract. The two people to precede Hannah-Jones in the role were both  offered  tenure according to The New York Times.  Since penning the Pulitzer Prize-winning " The 1619 Project " for The New York Times, conservatives have long been in a fight pitted against the journalist.