Nikole Hannah-Jones

Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones appeared at The Progressive Forum to discuss her book, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, on August 24, 2022, at Congregation Emanu El, Houston, Texas.
SHORT: A public school teacher helped 15-year-old Nikole discover herself and the year 1619, including a world of historic knowledge that the powers that be “don’t teach you because you start to challenge.” (7:16)

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Introduction of Nikole Hannah-Jones by Randall Morton, Progressive Forum founder, and Oni Blair, executive director of the ACLU of Texas. (12:42)
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Background

Nikole Hannah-Jones is a journalist for The New York Times, covering racial injustice. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for her work creating The 1619 Project. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the genius grant, for her work on educational inequality. In 2021, Time magazine named her among the world’s 100 most influential people. She has won a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, three National Magazine Awards, and the 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2016, she co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared toward increasing the number of investigative reporters of color. Hannah-Jones is the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.

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