Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 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, two George Polk Awards, three National Magazine Awards, 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.
Nikole Hannah-Jones appears in the following:
Nikole Hannah-Jones on Colorblindness
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Expanded 'The 1619 Project'
Friday, July 15, 2022
Nikole Hannah-Jones on 'The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story'
Friday, March 11, 2022
'The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story'
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones on American History
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones on 'The 1619 Project'
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Al Letson & Nikole Hannah-Jones: Sensitive, Not Scared
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
The Past, Present and Future of Nikole Hannah-Jones
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
What the Candidates Are Not Saying About Race
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
When NYC School Segregation Gets Personal
Friday, June 10, 2016
What Good School Integration Might Look Like
Thursday, August 20, 2015
'Separate But Equal' Never Ended in Education
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Behind a Big Supreme Court Case
Friday, March 22, 2013
In the next couple of months the Supreme Court will issue a decision in the case of Fisher vs. University of Texas at Austin. The case may determine the future of Affirmative Action, but news coverage that centers on the sympathetic plaintiff in the case misses a fascinating back story. Bob talks with ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones about the case.
Housing Integration
Thursday, December 06, 2012
ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones; Fred Freiberg, Executive Director of the Fair Housing Justice Center; and Betsy Julian, former Housing and Urban Development executive, discuss why the 1968 Fair Housing Act, which was supposed to help integrate cities, has gone largely unenforced, and what HUD should do to integrate cities. Nikole Hannah-Jones has been reporting on the topic for ProPublica, and you can read her articles here, and she's the author of a Kindle single called Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law.
