Hannah-Jones, who now teaches at Howard University, founded a Center for Journalism and Democracy where students can dig into historical truths not readily available. It also set off a national discourse about the role of slavery in shaping modern America and amplified the contributions of Black Americans. The project drew tremendous praise as well as strong criticism from some historians and political leaders. history by examining the 400-year legacy of slavery-and by making explicit how slavery is the foundation on which the country is built. The 1619 Project set out to challenge historical narratives and reframe U.S.
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States, Hannah-Jones created an extensive project published in 2019 by The New York Times Magazine that excavated 1619-the year the first enslaved Africans landed on the shores of Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia, and were sold to colonists. Close ties to her community contributed to a thirst to share deeper knowledge of the American past and present, which places the enslavement of Africans at the center of the American story. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. As an 11-year-old, she wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper about a presidential primary. and across the globe on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and its legacy, including giving a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in 2022 during the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.Nikole Hannah-Jones grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, where much of her family still lives. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting at Morehouse College, the 1619 Freedom School in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, and the Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard University, where she is the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. Nikole is a believer in Black institutions, and is the co-founder of the Ida B.
The 1619 Project is now a six-part docuseries streaming on Hulu. Nikole also co-wrote a children's book, called Born on the Water, which also debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list. Originally a special project of The New York Times Magazine, The 1619 Project book debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark The 1619 Project, now a Hulu original docuseries.
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