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Talk about a masterclass in how to love, honor and be true to yourself. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones shocked the academic world on Tuesday (which also happened to be the six-month anniversary of the Trump-inspired Capitol insurrection) when she declined UNC-Chapel Hill’s full-tenure offer after months of protests, legal threats and denials of her qualifications to receive the offer to the Knight Fellowship Chair in journalism.