Friday, August 14, 2026

FASCIST AMERICA 2026: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Kimberle Williams Crenshaw are two of the most important and influential writers and public intellectuals in the world today. They are featured together speaking with Joy Reid on the crucial topic of 'Black Politics In The Age Of Resistance' LIVE at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) symposium

LIVE at NABJ: Black Politics In The Age Of Resistance | The Joy Reid Show


ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
 
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Kimberle Williams Crenshaw are two of the most important and influential writers and public intellectuals in the world today. Hannah-Jones is an award winning investigative journalist and reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. Hannah-Jones is also the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she has founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy. In 2021, she was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. She has also won a Peabody Award, a George Polk National Magazine Award, and the 2018 John Chancellor distinguished journalism award from Columbia University. In 2016, Nikole co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared towards increasing the numbers of investigative reporters of color. She was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for The 1619 Project, The New York Times Magazine's groundbreaking exploration of the legacy of Black Americans starting with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in 1619.


Kimberlé Crenshaw J.D. Harvard; L.L.M. University of Wisconsin; B.A. Cornell University) is founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum. She is also Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, and a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, National Black Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and Southern California Law Review. She is the founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Workshop, and the co-editor of the volume, Critical Race Theory: Key Documents That Shaped the Movement. Crenshaw has lectured widely on race matters, addressing audiences across the country as well as in Europe, India, Africa and South America.

A specialist on race and gender equality, she has facilitated workshops for human rights activists in Brazil and in India, and for constitutional court judges in South Africa. Her groundbreaking work on “Intersectionality” has traveled globally and was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution. Crenshaw authored the background paper on Race and Gender Discrimination for the United Nation’s World Conference on Racism, served as the Rapporteur for the conference’s Expert Group on Gender and Race Discrimination, and coordinated NGO efforts to ensure the inclusion of gender in the WCAR Conference Declaration.
Her work has been foundational in two fields of scholarly study that have come to be known by terms that she coined: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.  Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is the founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum. 

ABOUT JOY REID:

Joy-Ann Lomena Reid (AKA Joy Reid) is a best-selling American author, political journalist and TV host. She was a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated, NAACP Award-winning political commentary and analysis show, The ReidOut, from 2020 to 2025.

Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020).

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