Protests after North Carolina university denies tenure to 1619 Project journalist

Board of trustees denied tenure to Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose work focuses on institutional racism

Protests erupted at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill after the school's board of trustees decided to not give tenure to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose pioneering work on institutional racism includes the 1619 Project.

Demonstrators, many of them UNC faculty members, gathered at a board of trustees meeting on Thursday morning with signs in protest of the decision. Some chanted: We will not be moved."