https://panopticonreview.blogspot.com/2024/06/long-live-nikole-hannah-jones-and.html
All,
The absolutely brilliant and consistently courageous, tough, prescient, and revolutionary journalist, historian, scholar, activist, and public intellectual Nikole Hannah-Jones whose relentless genius created the extraordinary 1619 Project in 2019 has always told us the whole truth and nothing but the truth about who and what this perversely dishonest, delusional, and oppressive nation really is and has always been whether we know, accept, or deny it or not. Thank you Nikole as always for “kicking ass and taking names.” In the meantime, dig what she so eloquently and lucidly says and asserts in the video below and share the wealth of knowledge and insight with those who desire, value, and deserve it…
Kofi
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist for The New York Times and author of the 1619 Project, spoke at Johnson C. Smith University's final Lyceum Engagement Series Program on March 21, 2024. Hannah-Jones discussed her project in detail and answered questions about her life growing up in Iowa, her stance on Affirmative Action, and much more. The Lyceum Engagement Series is sponsored by the Charlotte Mayor's Racial Equity Initiative.
March 28, 2024
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJmxbuNrq2Q
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
One of the most important and influential writers and public intellectuals in the world today Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. 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 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.
