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Nikole Hannah-Jones
Accepts New Position
The assassination is likely to plunge the Caribbean nation into further turmoil.
The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, has been assassinated in his home by a group of armed men who also seriously injured his wife, according to a state- ment and comments made by the country’s interim prime minister.
Speaking on a local radio station, Claude Joseph confirmed that Moïse, 53, had been killed, saying the attack was carried out by an “armed commando group” that included foreigners.
According to some reports and video published in the Miami Herald and else- where, Moïse’s killers
cial media, a man with an American accent is heard saying in English over a megaphone: “DEA opera- tion. Everybody stand down. DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down.”
“These were mercenar- ies,” a high-ranking Haitian government official said.
Residents also reported hearing gunshots and seeing men dressed in black run- ning through the neighbour- hood.
The attack took place at Moïse’s house in the Pelerin 5 district of Pétionville, a wealthy area with sometimes substantial and leafy villas in the hills above the capital, Port-au-Prince, with a repu- tation for being safe. It is an area critics of Moïse said he was loath to leave.
At Howard University
Nikole Hannah-Jones
will not be joining the faculty at the University of North Car- olina at Chapel Hill—despite the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist finally being granted tenure at the school following a long, white tears- infused drama that should never have been entertained by the school’s board of trustees. Instead, Hannah- Jones and famed author Ta- Nehisi Coates will both be starting jobs at Howard Uni- versity, a renowned HBCU and a school that didn’t force the creator of The 1619 Project into a Hannah-Jones-vs- white-fragility battle all be- cause conservatives get all in their feelings over Blackness being centered in American history.
Howard University an- nounced in a press release Tuesday that “Hannah-
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES Jones will be a tenured mem-
ber of the faculty of the Cathy Hughes School of Communi- cations, filling the newly cre- ated Knight Chair in Race and Journalism.” She will also lead the university’s newly created Center for Journalism and Democracy.
PRESIDENT JOVENEL MOÏSE
claimed to be members of the U. S. Drug Enforcement Ad- ministration (DEA) as they entered his guarded resi- dence.
In videos circulating on so-
Eric Adams Declared
Winner Of The New York
City Mayoral Primary
Eric Adams has been de- clared the winner of the New York City mayoral primary by Associated Press, setting him on course to be the next mayor of the biggest city in the United States.
Adams, a former police of- ficer and current president of the borough of Brooklyn, fought off a fierce challenge from Kathryn Garcia - a former sanitation chief, hop- ing to become the first female mayor.
The 60-year-old has vowed to stamp down on violent crime in the city, after it recorded more than 1,500
ERIC ADAMS
shootings in 2020, nearly al- most twice as many as 2019.
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Haiti President Jovenel Moïse Assassinated