Monday, March 18, 2024

Journalist, Historian, Public Intellectual and Activist Nikole Hannah-Jones On the Historical, Political, and Ideological Legacy of the White Supremacist Brazen Distortion and Deadly Sabotage of the African American Fight for Civil Rights and Constitutional Protections

Nikole Hannah-Jones on How an American ideal got hijacked

MSNBC 
 
March 16, 2024  
 
#CivilRights #America #Democracy
 
After the Civil War, Congress passed an act to establish the Freedmen's Bureau, which sought to provide resources to displaced Southerners including recently freed Black Americans. Intrinsic in its foundation was the idea that after the abolition of slavery, it was the responsibility of Congress to right the wrongs of our nation's ugly past. But in a new extended essay for New York Times Magazine, Nikole Hannah-Jones argues that in the decades since the civil rights era, the national ideal of colorblindness has been co-opted, and is now being used in an organized effort to stall - and even undo - civil rights era efforts to advance racial progress. The end of affirmative action is another symptom of that backlash against racial progress.
 
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A Black History Month Discussion with The 1619 Project Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones (February 24, 2024)

 
February 28, 2024 
  
 
An intriguing discussion with Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine Journalist and Creator of The 1619 Project. This event is sponsored by the African and African-American Liberation Ministry of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church. Event Moderator: Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd. 

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
 

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University where she is the founding director of the Center for Journalism & Democracy. 

Her reporting has earned her the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, the Knight Award for Public Service, the Peabody Award, two George Polk awards, the National Magazine Award three times and an Emmy. She is a Society of American Historians Fellow and a member of the Academy of Arts & Sciences. 

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
 
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.

She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. The book version of The 1619 Project as well as the 1619 Project children's book, Born on the Water, were instant #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her 1619 Project is now a six-part docuseries on Hulu. 

Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius grant, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and the National Magazine Award three times. 

She also serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Hannah-Jones is also the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color, and in 2022 she opened the 1619 Freedom School, a free, afterschool literacy program in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. Hannah-Jones holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her Bachelor of Arts in History and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.



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