The 1619 Project will be released as a series of books, beginning in 2021. Nikole is also working on a book called, "The Problem We All Live With", that explores black America's centuries-long struggle to obtain quality education, and why integrated schools are the linchpin of our democracy.
"IN A COUNTRY BUILT ON RACIAL CASTE,
WE MUST CONFRONT THE FACT THAT OUR
SCHOOLS ARE NOT BROKEN. THEY ARE
OPERATING AS DESIGNED.”
—Nikole Hannah-Jones
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES (b. April 9, 1976)
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Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine. Nikole got hooked on journalism when she joined her high school newspaper and began writing about students like her, who were bused across town as part of a voluntary school desegregation program.
Her heroes are the race beat reporters, such as Ida B. Wells, Ethel Payne, Simeon Booker and Claude Sitton, whose fearless coverage helped move this nation closer to its promise.
Prior to joining The New York Times, Nikole worked as an investigative reporter at ProPublica in New York City, where she spent three years chronicling the way official policy created and maintains segregation in housing and schools. Before that, she reported for the largest daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., where she covered numerous beats, including demographics, the census and county government.
Nikole started her journalism career covering the majority-black Durham Public Schools for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. During her three years there, she wrote extensively on issues of race, class, school resegregation and equity.
Nikole is a native Iowan, a child produced by the hopes of both the Great Migration and those who migrated from foreign shores. She has also lived in Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina and Oregon. Now she is Bed-Stuy fly in Brooklyn.
Awards & Honors:
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
2020
Online Journalism Awards
2020 Knight Award for Public Service 2020
Society of Professional Journalists
Fellow of the Society Award 2020
National Magazine Award for Public Interest
2020
National Magazine Award for Podcasting
2020
George Polk Award
Special Award 2020
Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service
Columbia University 2020
Infinity Award
International Center of Photography 2020
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
Alan V. and Amy Lowenstein Social Justice Award 2020
Multicultural Media Correspondents Association
Print Journalist Award 2020
Eastern Queens Alliance
Snowy Egret Award 2020
The Root 100
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
Beacon of Justice Award 2020
Society of American Historians Fellow
2020
One Hundred Black Men
2020
Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year
Newswomen's Club of New York 2019
Gwen Ifill Awardee
International Women's Media Foundation 2019
Ripple Effect Award
Studs Terkel Community Media Awards 2019
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Distinguished Alumna Award
2019
The Frederick Douglass 200
2019
John Chancellor Award
Columbia University 2018
Honorary Doctorate
Xavier University of Louisiana 2018
MacArthur Fellow
2017
National Magazine Award
Public interest 2017
Hillman Prize
Magazine journalism 2017
Mildred and Richard Loving Civil Rights Award
2017
Peabody Award
Radio reporting 2016
George Polk Award
Radio reporting 2016
National Education Award
Radio 2016
Media for Just Society Award
Radio 2016
National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award
2015, 2016, 2017
Emerson College President's Award for Civic Leadership
2015
Sigma Delta Chi Award
Public service 2015
Journalist of the Year
National Association of Black Journalists 2015
Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize
Distinguished education reporting 2015
National Magazine Award
Public interest finalist 2015
National Awards for Education Reporting
First prize for beat reporting 2015
Deadline Club Award
Newspaper or digital beat reporting 2015
Online Journalism Award
Explanatory reporting 2014
Columbia University Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award
2013
Sidney Award
2013
Silurians Excellence in Journalism Award
Online investigative news 2013
Society for News Design Award of Excellence
2013
Gannett Foundation Innovation in Watchdog Journalism Award
2012
C.B. Blethen Memorial Award
Distinguished reporting in the Northwest 2011 (2), 2012
Society of Professional Journalists Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award
2007, 2008, 2010
