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{{Short description|American journalist |
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| name = Nikole Hannah-Jones |
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| birth_name = Nikole Sheri Hannah |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|4|9}} |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|4|9}} |
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| birth_place = [[Waterloo, Iowa|Waterloo]], [[Iowa]], U.S. |
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| birth_place = [[Waterloo, Iowa]], U.S. |
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| occupation = Journalist |
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| occupation = Journalist |
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| education = [[University of Notre Dame]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]]) |
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| education = [[University of Notre Dame]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]]) |
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| years_active = 2003–present |
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| years_active = 2003–present |
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| known_for = Investigative journalism |
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| known_for = Investigative journalism, activism |
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| spouse = Faraji Hannah-Jones |
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| spouse = Faraji Hannah-Jones |
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| children = 1 |
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| children = 1 |
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| awards= [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (2017)<br/>[[2020 Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]] (2020) |
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| awards = [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (2017)<br />[[2020 Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]] (2020) |
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'''Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones''' (born April 9, 1976)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/02/writer-hannah-jones-discusses-black-education-desegregation-and-privilege|title=Writer Hannah-Jones discusses black education, segregation, and privilege|last=Deutch|first=Gabrielle|date=2018-04-02|website= |
'''Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones''' (born April 9, 1976)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/02/writer-hannah-jones-discusses-black-education-desegregation-and-privilege |title=Writer Hannah-Jones discusses black education, segregation, and privilege |last=Deutch |first=Gabrielle |date=2018-04-02 |website=Yale News |language=en |access-date=2019-04-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1115587070196457472 |title=It's my birthday today and I really want you to celebrate with me by watching this amazing documentary on Reconstruction that I had the honor of taking part in. And, yes, I was born on the anniversary of the end of the Civil War. I mean, of course. |last=Hannah-Jones |first=Nikole |date=2019-04-09 |website=Twitter |language=en |access-date=2019-04-10}}</ref> is an American [[Investigative journalism|investigative journalist]] known for her coverage of [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]] in the United States. She joined ''[[The New York Times]]'' as a staff writer in April 2015, was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]] in 2017, and won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Commentary]] in 2020 for her work on ''[[The 1619 Project]]''. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural [[Knight Foundation#Education and training|Knight Chair]] in Race and Journalism at the [[Howard University]] School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/us/howard-university-nikole-hannah-jones-ta-nehisi-coates/index.html |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure position and will join Howard University |first=Leah |last=Asmelash |date=July 6, 2021 |website=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/14641/two-iconic-writers-join-howard-university |title=Two Iconic American Writers Join Howard to Create a Center to Help Educate the Next Generation of Black Journalists |date=July 6, 2021 |website=Howard Newsroom}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/two-iconic-american-writers-join-howard-university-to-create-a-center-to-educate-the-next-generation-of-black-journalists |title=Two Iconic American Writers Join Howard University to Create the Center for Journalism and Democracy |date=July 6, 2021 |website=[[MacArthur Foundation]]}}</ref> |
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==Early life and education== |
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Hannah-Jones was born in [[Waterloo, Iowa|Waterloo]], [[Iowa]], to father Milton Hannah, who is [[African-American people|African-American]], and mother Cheryl A. Novotny, who is [[White people|white]] and of [[Czech Republic|Czech]] and [[England|English]] descent.<ref name=Oregonian-2FacesBlackAmExp-2009>{{cite news|last1=Rede|first1=George|title=Two faces of the black American experience|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/01/two_faces_of_the_black_america.html|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[The Oregonian]]|date=17 January 2009}}</ref> Hannah-Jones is the second of three |
Hannah-Jones was born in [[Waterloo, Iowa|Waterloo]], [[Iowa]], to father Milton Hannah, who is [[African-American people|African-American]], and mother Cheryl A. Novotny, who is [[White people|white]] and of [[Czech Republic|Czech]] and [[England|English]] descent.<ref name=Oregonian-2FacesBlackAmExp-2009>{{cite news |last1=Rede |first1=George |title=Two faces of the black American experience |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/01/two_faces_of_the_black_america.html |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[The Oregonian]] |date=17 January 2009}}</ref> Hannah-Jones is the second of their three daughters.<ref name=Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup-Father-Obit-2007>{{cite web |title=Life Legacy: Milton Hannah |url=http://www.hagartywaychoffgrarup.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=664092 |website=Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup |access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> She was raised [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hannah-Jones |first=Nikole |date=2021-12-25 |title=Tweet |url=https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1474739369131061252 |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=Twitter |language=en}}</ref> |
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Hannah-Jones and her sister attended |
Hannah-Jones and her sister attended predominantly white schools as part of a voluntary program of [[desegregation busing]].<ref name=ThisAmericanLife-ProblemWeAllLiveWith-2015>{{cite news |last1=Glass |first1=Ira |last2=Hannah-Jones |first2=Nikole |title=562: The Problem We All Live With |url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/transcript |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[This American Life]] |publisher=[[WBEZ]] |date=31 July 2015}}</ref> She attended [[Waterloo West High School]], where she wrote for the high-school newspaper and graduated in 1994.<ref name=NikoleHannahJones-About>{{cite web |title=About |url=http://nikolehannahjones.com/about/ |website=Nikole Hannah-Jones |access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> |
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After high school, Hannah-Jones attended the [[University of Notre Dame]], where she earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in history and [[African-American studies]] in 1998.<ref>https://archives.nd.edu/Commencement/1998-05-17_Commencement.pdf</ref> |
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Hannah-Jones earned a bachelor's degree in History and African-American Studies from the [[University of Notre Dame]] in [[Indiana]] in 1998. |
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In 1995, in response to an article published in the Notre Dame student newspaper that called [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]] "savages", Hannah-Jones replied with a [[letter to the editor]] titled "Modern Savagery."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hannah |first=Nicole |date=1995-11-21 |title=Modern savagery |url=https://archives.nd.edu/observer/v27/1995-11-21_v27_061.pdf |access-date=2024-11-28 |work=The Observer |pages=7}}</ref> She stated: "I find it hard to believe that any member of the white race can have the audacity and hypocrisy to call any other culture savage. The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager and thief of the modern world....The crimes they committed were unnecessarily cruel and can only be described as acts of the devil."<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Weitzmann |first=Marc |date=September 28, 2022 |title=The Making of Nikole Hannah-Jones |work=[[Tablet (magazine)|Tablet]] |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/making-of-nikole-hannah-jones-waterloo-iowa-1619-project-new-york-times}}</ref> |
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She graduated from the [[UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media|University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media]] with a master's degree in 2003, where she was a Roy H. Park Fellow.<ref name=Harvard-JournalistsResource-2015>{{cite news|last1=McCoy|first1=Nilagia|title=Investigating racial injustice with Nikole Hannah-Jones|url=http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/investigating-racial-injustice-with-nikole-hannah-jones|access-date=22 March 2016|work=Journalist's Resource|publisher=Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center|date=15 October 2015}}</ref><ref name=Harvard-InvestigatingRacialInjustice-Audio-2015>{{cite news|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|title=Investigating Racial Injustice|url=https://soundcloud.com/harvard/nikole-hannah-jones-investigating-racial-injustice-shorenstein-center|access-date=22 March 2016|work=Shorenstein Center|publisher=Harvard University|date=15 October 2015}}</ref> |
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She graduated from the [[UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media|University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media]] with a master's degree in 2003, where she was a Roy H. Park Fellow.<ref name=Harvard-JournalistsResource-2015>{{cite news |last1=McCoy |first1=Nilagia |title=Investigating racial injustice with Nikole Hannah-Jones |url=http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/investigating-racial-injustice-with-nikole-hannah-jones |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=Journalist's Resource |publisher=Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center |date=15 October 2015}}</ref><ref name=Harvard-InvestigatingRacialInjustice-Audio-2015>{{cite news |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |title=Investigating Racial Injustice |url=https://soundcloud.com/harvard/nikole-hannah-jones-investigating-racial-injustice-shorenstein-center |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=Shorenstein Center |publisher=Harvard University |date=15 October 2015}}</ref> |
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== Career == |
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In 2003, Hannah-Jones began her career covering the education beat, which included the predominantly [[African American people|African American]] [[Durham Public Schools]], for the [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] ''[[The News & Observer|News & Observer]],'' a position she held for three years.<ref name=ThisAmericanLife-ProblemWeAllLiveWith-2015 /> |
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Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the Honorary Degree of [[Doctor of Humane Letters]] by [[Chicago State University]] at its 370th commencement ceremony on May 18, 2023.<ref>https://www.csu.edu/news/2023archive/honorary_degree.htm</ref> |
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In 2006, Hannah-Jones moved to [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]], where she wrote for ''[[The Oregonian]]'' for six years. During this time she covered an enterprise assignment that included feature work, then the demographics beat, and then the government & census beats.<ref name=Oregonian-2FacesBlackAmExp-2009 /> |
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==Career== |
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In 2007, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 [[Watts riots]], Hannah-Jones wrote about its impact on the community for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the [[Kerner Commission]].<ref name=Kerner40-Watts-2008>{{cite news|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|title=Part Three: Los Angeles/Watts – In 1965, Watts burned – and the people cheered|url=http://www.ifajs.org/events/spring08/Kerner40/Report.pdf|access-date=22 March 2016|work=Kerner Plus 40 Report|publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania]]'s [[Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania|Annenberg School for Communication]] and Center for Africana Studies & the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies at [[North Carolina A&T State University]]|date=Spring 2008|pages=28–32}}</ref> |
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[[File:NikoleHannahJonesSpeakingWithAttendeesAtThirdPresbyterianChurchRochesterNewYork.jpg|thumb|Hannah-Jones with attendees after giving a talk in [[Rochester, New York]]]] |
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In 2003, Hannah-Jones began her career covering education, which included the predominantly [[African American people|African-American]] [[Durham Public Schools]], for the [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] ''[[The News & Observer|News & Observer]]'', a position she held for three years.<ref name=ThisAmericanLife-ProblemWeAllLiveWith-2015 /> |
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In 2006, Hannah-Jones moved to [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]], where she wrote for ''[[The Oregonian]]'' for six years. During this time, her assignments included [[Feature story|feature work]], demographics, and then government and census [[Beat reporting|beats]].<ref name=Oregonian-2FacesBlackAmExp-2009 /> |
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From 2008 to 2009, Hannah-Jones received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies which enabled her to travel to Cuba to study [[universal healthcare]] and Cuba's educational system under [[Raul Castro]].<ref name=IAJS-ClosingAchievmentGap-2009>{{cite news|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|title=Stories Inside the Black-White Achievement Gap. Part 1: What it is and why it persists: Closing the achievement gap: A matter of national survival|url=http://www.ifajs.org/blackwhitegap/onesociety.html|access-date=22 March 2016|work=Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies|date=2009}}</ref><ref name=IAJS-CubanPremiumOnHealth-2009>{{cite news|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|title=Stories Inside the Black-White Achievement Gap. Part 3: Cuba: How all children learn in a mostly-black land: Cuban School Officials Put Premium On Health Of Students|url=http://www.ifajs.org/Cubaoct09/cubastudenthealth.html|access-date=22 March 2016|work=Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies|date=2009}}</ref> |
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In 2007, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 [[Watts riots]], Hannah-Jones wrote about the impact on the community of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the [[Kerner Commission]].<ref name=Kerner40-Watts-2008>{{cite news |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |title=Part Three: Los Angeles/Watts – In 1965, Watts burned – and the people cheered |url=http://www.ifajs.org/events/spring08/Kerner40/Report.pdf |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=Kerner Plus 40 Report |publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania]]'s [[Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania|Annenberg School for Communication]] and Center for Africana Studies & the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies at [[North Carolina A&T State University]] |date=Spring 2008 |pages=28–32}}</ref> |
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In 2011, she joined the nonprofit news organization ''[[ProPublica]],'' which is based in New York City, where she covered civil rights and continued research she started in Oregon on [[redlining]] and in-depth investigative reporting on the lack of enforcement of the [[Fair Housing Act]] for minorities.<ref name="ProPublica-Bio">{{cite web|title=About Us: Nikole Hannah-Jones|url=https://www.propublica.org/site/author/nikole_hannah-jones|access-date=22 March 2016|website=[[ProPublica]]}}</ref> Hannah-Jones also spent time in [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]], [[Alabama]], where the decision in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' had little effect.<ref name=DemocracyNow-JimCrowClassroom-2014>{{cite news|last1=Shaikh|first1=Nermeen|last2=Goodman|first2=Amy|last3=Hannah-Jones|first3=Nikole|title=Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in U.S. Schools|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/23/resegregation_of_american_students_new_report|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[Democracy Now]]|date=23 April 2014}}</ref> |
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From 2008 to 2009, Hannah-Jones received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies which enabled her to travel to Cuba to study [[universal healthcare]] and Cuba's educational system under [[Raul Castro|Raúl Castro]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/49749d342c.html|title=Refworld {{pipe}} World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Cuba : Afro-Cubans|website=Refworld.org|access-date=April 6, 2022}}</ref><ref name=IAJS-ClosingAchievmentGap-2009>{{cite news |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |title=Stories Inside the Black-White Achievement Gap. Part 1: What it is and why it persists: Closing the achievement gap: A matter of national survival |url=http://www.ifajs.org/blackwhitegap/onesociety.html |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies |date=2009}}</ref><ref name=IAJS-CubanPremiumOnHealth-2009>{{cite news |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |title=Stories Inside the Black-White Achievement Gap. Part 3: Cuba: How all children learn in a mostly-black land: Cuban School Officials Put Premium On Health Of Students |url=http://www.ifajs.org/Cubaoct09/cubastudenthealth.html |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies |date=2009}}</ref> |
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Hannah-Jones was elected as a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Members|url=https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2021|access-date=2021-04-24|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}</ref> |
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In 2011, she joined the nonprofit news organization ''[[ProPublica]],'' which is based in New York City, where she covered civil rights and continued research she had started in Oregon on [[redlining]] and in-depth investigative reporting on the lack of enforcement of the [[Fair Housing Act]] for minorities.<ref name="ProPublica-Bio">{{cite web |title=About Us: Nikole Hannah-Jones |url=https://www.propublica.org/site/author/nikole_hannah-jones |access-date=22 March 2016 |website=[[ProPublica]]}}</ref> Hannah-Jones also spent time in [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]], [[Alabama]], where the decision in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' had little effect.<ref name=DemocracyNow-JimCrowClassroom-2014>{{cite news |last1=Shaikh |first1=Nermeen |last2=Goodman |first2=Amy |last3=Hannah-Jones |first3=Nikole |title=Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in U.S. Schools |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/23/resegregation_of_american_students_new_report |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[Democracy Now]] |date=23 April 2014}}</ref> |
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[[File:NikoleHannahJonesSpeakingWithAttendeesAtThirdPresbyterianChurchRochesterNewYork.jpg|thumb| Hannah-Jones with attendees after giving a talk in [[Rochester, New York]]]] |
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Hannah-Jones was elected as a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Members |url=https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2021 |access-date=2021-04-24 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> |
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=== ''The New York Times'' === |
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In 2015, Hannah-Jones became a staff reporter for ''[[The New York Times]].''<ref name="NYTimes-JoinsNYT-2015">{{cite news|last1=Silverstein|first1=Jake|date=1 April 2015|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones Joins The New York Times Magazine|publisher=The New York Times Company|url=http://www.nytco.com/nikole-hannah-jones-joins-the-new-york-times-magazine/|access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref> |
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In January 2022, Hannah-Jones and teacher Sheritta Stokes launched the 1619 Freedom School in [[Waterloo, Iowa]], inspired by the 1960s [[Freedom School]]s of the civil-rights movement.<ref name="publicinteg">{{cite news |title=Inside the effort to make this city a better place for its Black residents |last1=Smith Hopkins |first1=Jamie |url=https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/the-heist/1619-freedom-school-better-place-black-residents/|work=The Center For Public Integrity |date=March 8, 2022 |access-date=March 18, 2022}}</ref> The program is a five-day-a-week, two-hour literacy enrichment for the Waterloo school district for grade-school students.<ref name="publicinteg"/> |
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Hannah-Jones has written about topics such as [[racial segregation]], [[desegregation]] and resegregation in American schools<ref name=ColumbiaJournalismReview-SegNow-2014>{{cite news|last1=Oputu|first1=Edirin|title=A laurel to ProPublica: A superlative investigative piece examines the resegregation of America's schools|url=https://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/a_laurel_to_propublica.php|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|date=2 May 2014}}</ref><ref name=Grist-Gentrification-2015>{{cite news|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|title=Gentrification doesn't fix inner-city schools|url=http://grist.org/cities/gentrification-doesnt-fix-inner-city-schools/|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[Grist (magazine)|Grist]]|date=27 February 2015}}</ref> and housing discrimination, and has spoken about these issues on national public radio broadcasts.<ref name=NPR-FairHousing-2013>{{cite news|last1=Demby|first1=Gene|title=A Battle For Fair Housing Still Raging, But Mostly Forgotten|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/01/248039354/a-battle-for-fair-housing-still-raging-but-mostly-forgotten|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[NPR]]|date=2 December 2013}}</ref><ref name=StarTribune-NABJ-2015>{{cite news|last1=Howard|first1=Marcus E.|title=Minnesota's achievement gap debated at NABJ conference|url=http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-achievement-gap-debated-at-nabj-conference/321150101/|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[Star Tribune]]|date=8 August 2015}}</ref> |
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===''The New York Times''=== |
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She writes to discover and expose the systemic and [[institutional racism]] that she says are perpetuated by official laws and acts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/insider/nikole-hannah-jones-macarthur-grant.html|title=A Chat With MacArthur Genius Nikole Hannah-Jones|last=Silverstein|first=Jake|date=2017-10-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-02-26|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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In 2015, Hannah-Jones became a staff reporter for ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="NYTimes-JoinsNYT-2015">{{cite news |last1=Silverstein |first1=Jake |date=1 April 2015 |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones Joins The New York Times Magazine |work=The New York Times Company |url=http://www.nytco.com/nikole-hannah-jones-joins-the-new-york-times-magazine/ |access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref> |
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Hannah-Jones has written about topics such as [[racial segregation]], [[School integration in the United States|desegregation]] and resegregation in American schools<ref name=ColumbiaJournalismReview-SegNow-2014>{{cite news |last1=Oputu |first1=Edirin |title=A laurel to ProPublica: A superlative investigative piece examines the resegregation of America's schools |url=https://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/a_laurel_to_propublica.php |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[Columbia Journalism Review]] |date=2 May 2014}}</ref><ref name=Grist-Gentrification-2015>{{cite news |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |title=Gentrification doesn't fix inner-city schools |url=http://grist.org/cities/gentrification-doesnt-fix-inner-city-schools/ |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[Grist (magazine)|Grist]] |date=27 February 2015}}</ref> and housing discrimination, and has spoken about these issues on national public radio broadcasts.<ref name=NPR-FairHousing-2013>{{cite news |last1=Demby |first1=Gene |title=A Battle For Fair Housing Still Raging, But Mostly Forgotten |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/01/248039354/a-battle-for-fair-housing-still-raging-but-mostly-forgotten |access-date=22 March 2016 |publisher=[[NPR]] |date=2 December 2013}}</ref><ref name=StarTribune-NABJ-2015>{{cite news |last1=Howard |first1=Marcus E. |title=Minnesota's achievement gap debated at NABJ conference |url=http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-achievement-gap-debated-at-nabj-conference/321150101/ |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[Star Tribune]] |date=8 August 2015}}</ref> |
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She writes to discover and expose the systemic and [[institutional racism]] that she says are perpetuated by official laws and acts.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/insider/nikole-hannah-jones-macarthur-grant.html |title=A Chat With MacArthur Genius Nikole Hannah-Jones |last=Silverstein |first=Jake |date=2017-10-13 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-02-26 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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Hannah-Jones was a 2017 Emerson Fellow at the [[New America Foundation]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newamerica.org/fellows/alumni-roster/|title=Previous Classes|website=New America|language=en|access-date=2017-10-04}}</ref> where she worked on a book on school segregation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/nikole-hannah-jones/|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones|website=New America|language=en|access-date=2017-10-04}}</ref> The book, ''The Problem We All Live With'', is due out in June 2020 from [[Chris Jackson (publisher)|Chris Jackson]]'s One World imprint at [[Random House]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PVDMQAACAAJ|title=The Problem We All Live with|last=Hannah-Jones|first=Nikole|date=June 2, 2020|publisher=One World|isbn=9780399180569|language=en}}</ref> |
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Her work on racial inequalities has been particularly influential and is cited widely.<ref name=Longreads-Apostrophes-2015>{{cite news |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |title='Apostrophes': Nikole Hannah-Jones on Race, Education and Inequality, at Longreads Story Night |url=http://blog.longreads.com/2015/11/05/apostrophes-nikole-hannah-jones-on-race-education-and-inequality-at-longreads-story-night/ |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=Longreads Story Night |date=5 November 2015}}</ref> Hannah-Jones reported on the school district where teenager [[Shooting of Michael Brown|Michael Brown]] had been shot, one of the "most segregated, impoverished districts in the entire state" of Missouri.<ref name=Essence-MichaelBrown-2014>{{cite news |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |title=How the Media Missed the Mark in Coverage of Michael Brown's Killing |url=http://www.essence.com/2014/08/12/how-media-missed-mark-coverage-michael-brown's-killing |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]] |date=12 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=PBS-MichaelBrown-2015>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Jeffrey |last2=Hannah-Jones |first2=Nikole |last3=Cashin |first3=Sheryll |title=Why school districts like Michael Brown's have suffered 'rapid resegregation' |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/school-districts-like-michael-browns-suffered-rapid-resegregation/ |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[PBS NewsHour]] |date=11 August 2015}}</ref> Reviewer Laura Moser of ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' praised her report on school resegregation, which showed how educational inequality may have been a factor in the death of Brown.<ref name=Slate-AnotherRacistTragedy-2015>{{cite news |last1=Moser |first1=Laura |title=There's Another Racist Tragedy in St. Louis That Nobody Talks About |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/2015/08/04/normandy_school_district_segregation_why_it_s_the_other_racist_tragedy_in.html |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |date=4 August 2015}}</ref> |
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Hannah-Jones is a 2017 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation fellowship.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-step-into-the-spotlight-is-this-really-happening/2017/10/10/7a4837ce-ad0a-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html|title=MacArthur 'genius' grant winners step into the spotlight: 'Is this really happening?'|first=Caitlin|last=Gibson|date=October 11, 2017|access-date=May 5, 2020|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> The award cited her “ Chronicling the persistence of racial segregation in American society, particularly in education, and reshaping national conversations around education reform.”<ref>{{cite web |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones - MacArthur Foundation |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/988/ |website=www.macfound.org |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=11 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref> |
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Hannah-Jones was a 2017 Emerson Fellow at the [[New America Foundation]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.newamerica.org/fellows/alumni-roster/ |title=Previous Classes |website=New America |language=en |access-date=2017-10-04}}</ref> where she worked on a book on school segregation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/nikole-hannah-jones/ |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones |publisher=New America Foundation |language=en |access-date=2017-10-04}}</ref> The book, ''The Problem We All Live With'', was due out in June 2020 from Random House's [[One World (imprint)|One World]] imprint.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=Is there a source for the due date, proposed title and publisher? This isn't stated in the New America-source.}} |
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==== 1619 Project ==== |
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Hannah-Jones is a 2017 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation fellowship.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-step-into-the-spotlight-is-this-really-happening/2017/10/10/7a4837ce-ad0a-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html |title=MacArthur 'genius' grant winners step into the spotlight: 'Is this really happening?' |first=Caitlin |last=Gibson |date=October 11, 2017 |access-date=May 5, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> The award cited her "Chronicling the persistence of racial segregation in American society, particularly in education, and reshaping national conversations around education reform."<ref>{{cite web |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones, Journalist |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/988/ |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=11 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref> |
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====1619 Project==== |
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In 2019, Hannah-Jones launched a project to |
In 2019, Hannah-Jones launched a project to fundamentally change the way [[slavery in the United States]] was viewed, timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the [[First Africans in Virginia|first enslaved Africans in Virginia]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Barrus |first=Jeff |date=2020-05-04 |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones Wins Pulitzer Prize for 1619 Project |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/nikole-hannah-jones-wins-pulitzer-prize-1619-project |access-date=2020-06-19 |publisher=Pulitzer Center |language=en}}</ref> Hannah-Jones produced a series of articles for a special issue of ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' titled [[The 1619 Project]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |date=August 14, 2019 |title=The Idea of America |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html |access-date=July 17, 2020 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> The ongoing initiative began August 14, 2019, and "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative."<ref>{{Cite web |last=The 1619 Project |date=August 14, 2019 |title=The 1619 Project |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html |access-date=July 17, 2020 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> The project featured essays by a combination of staff writers and academics including Princeton historian [[Kevin M. Kruse]], Harvard-trained lawyer [[Bryan Stevenson]], Princeton sociologist [[Matthew Desmond]], and SUNY historian Anne Bailey. In the opening essay, Hannah-Jones wrote: "No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed." The project also included poems, short fiction, and a photo essay. Originally conceived of as a special issue, it was soon turned into a full-fledged project, including a special broadsheet section in the newspaper, live events, and a multi-episode podcast series. |
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<ref>{{Cite web|last=The 1619 Project|date=August 14, 2019|title=The 1619 Project|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html?searchResultPosition=1|access-date=July 17, 2020|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> The project featured essays by a combination of staff writers and academics including Princeton historian [[Kevin M. Kruse]], Harvard-trained lawyer [[Bryan Stevenson]], Princeton sociologist [[Matthew Desmond]], and SUNY historian Anne Bailey. In the opening essay, Hannah-Jones wrote "No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed." The project also included poems, short fiction, and a photo essay. Originally conceived of as a special issue, it was soon turned into a full-fledged project, including a special broadsheet section in the newspaper, live events, and a multi-episode podcast series. |
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In [[2020 Pulitzer Prize|2020]], Hannah-Jones won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for Commentary for her work on the 1619 Project.<ref name="2020Prize">{{Cite news |last=Tracy |first=Marc |date=May 4, 2020 |title=The New York Times and the Anchorage Daily News Win Pulitzer Prizes |language=en-US | |
In [[2020 Pulitzer Prize|2020]], Hannah-Jones won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] for Commentary for her work on the 1619 Project.<ref name="2020Prize">{{Cite news |last=Tracy |first=Marc |date=May 4, 2020 |title=The New York Times and the Anchorage Daily News Win Pulitzer Prizes |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/media/pulitzer-prizes.html |access-date=May 4, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The award cited her "sweeping, provocative and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America's story, prompting public conversation about the nation's founding and evolution."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nikole-hannah-jones-new-york-times |access-date=May 4, 2020 |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref> Her paper was criticized by historians [[Gordon S. Wood]] and [[Leslie M. Harris]], specifically for asserting that "one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-12-20 |title=We Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued The 1619 Project |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html |access-date=2020-07-18|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Historian Gordon Wood responds to the New York Times' defense of the 1619 Project |date=24 December 2019 |url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/24/nytr-d24.html |access-date=2020-07-18 |website=World Socialist Web Site |language=en}}</ref><ref name="politico-122248">{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Leslie M. |date=3 March 2020 |title=I Helped Fact-Check the 1619 Project. The Times Ignored Me. |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607092104/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-project-new-york-times-mistake-122248 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |access-date=7 Jul 2021 |url-status=live |website=Politico |department=Opinion}}</ref> The article was "clarified" in March 2020 to read "for some of the colonists".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Silverstein |first=Jake |date=2020-03-11 |title=An Update to The 1619 Project |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the-1619-project.html |access-date=2020-07-18|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> There was also debate around whether the project suggested the nation was founded in 1619 with the arrival of enslaved Africans rather than in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=N.Y. Times owes explanation for 1619 Project reversal |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/09/26/n-y-times-owes-explanation-for-1619-project-reversal |first=Jonah |last=Goldberg |date=September 26, 2020 |access-date=October 6, 2020 |website=The Boston Herald}}</ref> Speaking to ''New York Times'' opinion writer [[Bret Stephens]], Hannah-Jones said the suggestion of considering 1619, as a jumping-off point for interpreting US history had always been so self-evidently metaphorical that it went without saying.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stephens |first=Bret |date=2020-10-09 |title=Opinion: The 1619 Chronicles |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-1619-project-criticisms.html |access-date=2020-10-11|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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[[New York University]]'s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute named the 1619 Project as one of the 10 greatest works of journalism in the decade from 2010 to 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Margaret |title=Perspective: Here's a list of the 10 greatest works of journalism of the past 10 years. Care to argue about it? |date=October 14, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/best-journalism-decade-top-10/2020/10/14/d4cdbe0e-0d6e-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html |access-date=2020-10-15 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In 2022, Hannah-Jones was nominated at the [[53rd NAACP Image Awards|NAACP Image Award]] for [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction|Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction]] and was recognized with the Social Justice Impact Award.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Spivey|first=Kemberlie|date=2022-01-19|title=2022 NAACP Image Awards Nominations: The Full List|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kemberliespivey/2022/01/18/2022-naacp-image-awards-nominations-the-full-list/|access-date=2022-01-20|website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> |
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===University of North Carolina=== |
===University of North Carolina=== |
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In April 2021, the University of North Carolina announced Hannah-Jones would join the [[UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media|Hussman School of Journalism and Media]] in July 2021 as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism |
In April 2021, the University of North Carolina announced that Hannah-Jones would join the [[UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media|Hussman School of Journalism and Media]] in July 2021 as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pulitzer Prize-winning MacArthur 'Genius' Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times to become Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism |url=http://hussman.unc.edu/news/pulitzer-prize-winning-macarthur-%E2%80%98genius%E2%80%99-nikole-hannah-jones-new-york-times-become-knight |access-date=2021-05-19 |website=UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media |date=April 26, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Following criticism, particularly from conservative groups who expressed disagreement with the 1619 Project and questioned Hannah-Jones's credentials, the University Board of Trustees, presented with the tenure committee's recommendation to approve her application for tenure, instead took no action.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-19 |title=Special Report: After conservative criticism, UNC backs down from offering acclaimed journalist tenured position |url=http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/05/19/pw-special-report-after-conservative-criticism-unc-backs-down-from-offering-acclaimed-journalist-a-tenured-position/ |access-date=2021-05-19 |website=NC Policy Watch |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-10 |title=UNC's 1619 Project Hire: A Case Study of Failed University Governance |url=https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/05/uncs-1619-project-hire-a-case-study-of-failed-university-governance/ |access-date=2021-05-19 |first=Shannon |last=Watkins |website=The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal |language=en-US}}</ref> Unable to offer tenure without approval by its trustees, UNC announced they would instead offer a fixed five-year contract with an option for tenure review—terms to which Hannah-Jones agreed.<ref name="NYTRobertson">{{Cite news|last=Robertson|first=Katie|date=2021-06-23|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones Says She Won't Join U.N.C. Faculty Without Tenure|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/business/media/nikole-hannah-jones-university-of-north-carolina-tenure.html|access-date=2021-08-01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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Outraged, more than 40 Hussman faculty members signed a statement criticizing the board's inaction, noting that the previous two Knight Chairs were given tenure and claiming that UNC "unfairly moves the goal posts" by not offering Hannah-Jones the same.<ref name="NYTDenied">{{Cite news|last=Robertson|first=Katie|date=2021-05-20|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at University of North Carolina|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/business/media/nikole-hannah-jones-unc.html|access-date=2021-08-01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Hussman Faculty|date=2021-06-04|title=Stunned: UNC Hussman Faculty Statement on Nikole Hannah-Jones|url=https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/stunned-unc-hussman-schfaculty-statement-on-nikole-hannah-jones-6333c5f5d072|access-date=2021-08-01|website=Medium|language=en}}</ref> The school's Black Caucus also condemned the terms of her contract, and students joined faculty in protests.<ref name="APForeman">{{Cite news|last=Foreman |first=Tom Jr.|date=2021-06-25|title=UNC protesters cite ongoing frustrations amid tenure dispute|url=https://apnews.com/article/nc-state-wire-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-education-9b7c7fe1e013e7cbc74d6bfe48ddbd8e|access-date=2021-08-01|website=AP NEWS|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=UNC withholds tenure for "1619 Project" journalist after conservative backlash |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/unc-withholds-tenure-1619-project-journalist-after-conservative-backlash-n1267979 |first=Char |last=Adams |date=May 20, 2021 |access-date=2021-05-31 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-20 |title=Protests after North Carolina university denies tenure to 1619 Project journalist |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/20/university-north-carolina-chapel-hill-denies-tenure-nikole-hannah-jones-1619-project |first=Amanda |last=Holpuch |access-date=2021-05-31 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref> Hannah-Jones stated: "It's pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition, because of discriminatory views against my viewpoint and, I believe, [because of] my race and my gender."<ref name="guardian6/7/2021"/> In late June 2021, Hannah-Jones, via a letter from her lawyers, said she will not take a faculty position with the university unless it is offered as a tenured position.<ref name=NYTRobertson/> On June 30, 2021, the Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted in a closed session to include tenure in the position offer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=After Contentious Debate, UNC Grants Tenure To Nikole Hannah-Jones |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011880598/after-contentious-debate-unc-grants-tenure-to-nikole-hannah-jones |access-date=2021-06-30 |website=NPR.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name="WapoTenure">{{cite news |title=UNC board approves tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones after uproar over inaction on job protection |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/30/hannah-jones-unc-tenure-vote/ |first1=Nick |last1=Anderson |first2=Susan |last2=Svrluga |date=2021-06-30 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> |
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===Howard University=== |
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Hannah-Jones refused the position at North Carolina and decided to accept a tenured position at [[Howard University]] instead, where she will be the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism.<ref name="guardian6/7/2021">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/06/nikole-hannah-jones-howard-university-rejecting-unc|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones joins Howard University after rejecting UNC role|date=July 6, 2021|website=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/07/06/nikole-hannah-jones-declines-unc-tenure-offer-heads-to-howard-university/|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, heads to Howard University|date=July 6, 2021}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://knightfoundation.org/articles/a-knight-chair-at-howard-university/|title=A Knight Chair at Howard University|website=Knight Foundation}}</ref> Hannah-Jones said, "Once the news broke and I started to see the extent of the political interference, particularly the reporting on Walter Hussman, it became really clear to me that I just could not work at a school named after [[Walter Hussman]]. To be a person who has stood for what I stand for and have any integrity whatsoever, I just couldn't see how I could do that."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ncprimer.substack.com/p/hannah-jones-to-unc-thanks-but-no|title = Hannah-Jones to UNC: Thanks but No Thanks|date = July 7, 2021}}</ref> |
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[[Ta-Nehisi Coates]] will join Hannah-Jones at Howard as the Sterling Brown Chair in the English Department.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/14641/two-iconic-writers-join-howard-university|title=Newsroom|website=Howard Newsroom}}</ref> Hannah-Jones also brings $20 million to Howard to support her work there, $5 million each from the [[Knight Foundation]], the [[MacArthur Foundation]], the [[Ford Foundation]] and an anonymous donor.<ref name="auto"/> |
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==Controversies and criticism== |
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===Criticism of the 1619 Project=== |
===Criticism of the 1619 Project (2019, 2022)=== |
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Five historians wrote to the New York Times Magazine to ask the creators of its 1619 Project to issue corrections, including for Hannah-Jones's assertions on the American Revolution and on Lincoln. The correction request was signed by Victoria Bynum of Texas State University, [[James M. McPherson]] and Sean Wilentz of Princeton University, James Oakes of the City University of New York, and Gordon S. Wood of Brown University.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mettler |first1=Katie |title=Five professors say the 1619 Project should be amended. ‘We disagree,’ says the New York Times. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/12/22/five-professors-say-project-should-be-amended-we-disagree-says-new-york-times/ |access-date=May 20, 2021 |work=The Washington Post |date=December 22, 2019}}</ref> |
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Five historians wrote to ''The New York Times Magazine'' to ask the creators of its 1619 Project to issue corrections, including for Hannah-Jones's assertions on the American Revolution and on Lincoln. The correction request was signed by [[Victoria E. Bynum|Victoria Bynum]] of [[Texas State University]], [[James M. McPherson]] and Sean Wilentz of [[Princeton University]], James Oakes of the [[City University of New York]], and Gordon S. Wood of [[Brown University]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mettler |first1=Katie |title=Five professors say the 1619 Project should be amended. 'We disagree,' says the New York Times. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/12/22/five-professors-say-project-should-be-amended-we-disagree-says-new-york-times/ |access-date=May 20, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=December 22, 2019}}</ref> Historian [[Leslie M. Harris]], who was consulted for the Project, wrote in ''[[Politico]]'' that she had warned that the idea that the [[American Revolution]] was fought to protect slavery was inaccurate, and that the ''Times'' made avoidable mistakes.<ref name="politico-122248" /> |
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In the May 2022 issue of the libertarian magazine [[Reason (magazine)|''Reason'']], reporter Phillip W. Magness criticized the 1619 Project as "junk history".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Magness |first=Phillip W. |date=2022-03-29 |title=The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History |url=https://reason.com/2022/03/29/the-1619-project-unrepentantly-pushes-junk-history/ |access-date=2024-01-03 |website=Reason.com |language=en-US}}</ref> William Simons of the [[State University of New York at Oneonta]], wrote: "Unfortunately, the prescription provided by Hannah-Jones in the conclusion to The 1619 Project for overcoming slavery's legacy of racial inequity is more aspirational than analytic. Certainly, she is correct that rights without substantive economic redress are not enough. It is a tragedy that following the Civil War, the property of masters was not confiscated and redistributed to former slaves. However, Hannah-Jones's agenda—reparations for descendants of slaves, as well as national health care and other social welfare programs for all Americans—provides no cost analysis, details, or assessment of the political climate. In January 2023, it took the US House of Representatives fifteen ballots to even elect a speaker."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Simons |first=William |date=April 3, 2024 |title=The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2023.2195349 |journal=The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs |volume=17 |issue=1 |via=Tylor and Francis}}</ref> |
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=== Alleged [[doxing]] of reporter === |
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A [[The Washington Free Beacon|Washington Free Beacon]] reporter highlighted a tweet from Hannah-Jones from May 2016 in which she quoted someone using the N-word. After being asked for comment, Hannah-Jones posted the reporter's inquiry, which contained his work phone number, on Twitter.<ref name="Nikole Hannah-Jones on Donald McNeil’s Resignation"/> |
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===Fireworks tweet (2020)=== |
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When someone noted that she had posted his phone number, Hannah-Jones did not immediately delete her tweet.<ref name="Nikole Hannah-Jones on Donald McNeil’s Resignation"/> |
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In June 2020, Hannah-Jones apologized for retweeting a [[conspiracy theory]] claiming that fireworks were being set off by "government agents" to dampen the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/1619-project-author-apologizes-fanning-173319883.html |title=1619 Project Author Apologizes for Fanning Conspiracy Theory That 'Government Agents' Using Fireworks to 'Destabilize' BLM Movement |first=Tobias |last=Hoonhout |date=June 22, 2020 |website=Yahoo! Entertainment}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/06/23/fireworks-conspiracies-explode-as-nyc-launches-task-force-to-look-into-blasts/ |title=Fireworks Conspiracies Explode As NYC Launches Task Force To Look Into Blasts |first=Lisette |last=Voytko |date=June 23, 2020 |website=Forbes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/fireworks-conspiracy-theories-panic-boompilled-boompilling-government-police-2020-6 |title=A panic over fireworks shows how quickly conspiracy theories can spread |first=Anthony L. |last=Fisher |date=25 June 2020 |website=Business Insider}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/firework-summer-2020-conspiracy-theory-police/613450/ |title=The Boom in Fireworks Conspiracy Theories |first=Kaitlyn |last=Tiffany |date=June 24, 2020 |website=The Atlantic}}</ref> |
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=== Chick-fil-A story (2024) === |
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In an interview with [[Slate (magazine)|Slate]], Hannah-Jones said, "I didn’t realize I was tweeting out his phone number, and when someone mentioned it, I should have deleted it. So absolutely. I did not intend to do that, and I wish that I hadn’t."<ref name="Nikole Hannah-Jones on Donald McNeil’s Resignation">{{Cite web|last=Ismail|first=Aymann|date=2021-02-13|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones on Donald McNeil’s Resignation, Why She Was Involved, and an Exhausting Week at the New York Times|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/nikole-hannah-jones-don-mcneil-new-york-times-interview.html|access-date=2021-05-20|website=Slate Magazine|language=en}}</ref> |
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Hannah-Jones questioned the veracity of a 2024 essay in ''[[The Atlantic]]'' by a former [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] editor who said he had been chastised by [[human resources]] due to eating at [[Chick-fil-A]], given [[Chick-fil-A and LGBT people|the CEO's position against same-sex marriage]]. ''The Atlantic'' asserted that the story had been fact-checked and confirmed with multiple ''Times'' employees, and journalists [[Robby Soave]], [[Erik Wemple]], and [[Jonathan Chait]] also supported the magazine.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chait |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Chait |date=March 1, 2024 |title=The 'Fake' New York Times Chicken-Sandwich Story Turns Out to Be Quite Real |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-fake-n-y-times-chicken-sandwich-story-is-quite-real.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240512192106/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-fake-n-y-times-chicken-sandwich-story-is-quite-real.html |archive-date=May 12, 2024 |access-date=May 21, 2024 |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wemple |first=Erik |author-link=Erik Wemple |date=March 7, 2024 |title=New York Times employees fighting over Chick-fil-A? Sounds about right. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/07/chick-fil-a-new-york-times/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240307234251/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/07/chick-fil-a-new-york-times/ |archive-date=March 7, 2024 |access-date=May 21, 2024 |work=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Soave |first=Robby |author-link=Robby Soave |date=February 29, 2024 |title=New York Times Staffers Bullied a Conservative Writer |url=https://reason.com/2024/02/29/new-york-times-staffers-bullied-a-conservative-writer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517113031/https://reason.com/2024/02/29/new-york-times-staffers-bullied-a-conservative-writer/ |archive-date=May 17, 2024 |access-date=May 21, 2024 |work=[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]}}</ref> |
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==Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting== |
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In early 2015, Nikole Hannah-Jones, along with [[Ron Nixon]], Corey Johnson, and Topher Sanders, began dreaming of creating the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://idabwellssociety.org/about/our-creation-story/|title=Our Creation Story – IDA B. Wells Society|website=idabwellssociety.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-26}}</ref> This organization was launched in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], in 2016, with the purpose of promoting [[investigative journalism]], which is the least common type of reporting.<ref name=":0" /> Following in the footsteps of [[Ida B. Wells]], this society encourages minority journalists to expose injustices perpetuated by the government and defend people who are susceptible to being taken advantage of.<ref name=":0" /> This organization was created with much support from the [[Open Society Foundations]], [[Ford Foundation]], and [[CUNY Graduate School of Journalism]].<ref name=":0" /> |
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In 2016, Nikole Hannah-Jones, along with [[Ron Nixon]], Corey Johnson, and Topher Sanders, launched the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], in 2016, to promote [[investigative journalism]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=http://idabwellssociety.org/about/our-creation-story/ |title=Our Creation Story |website=Ida B. Wells Society |language=en-US |access-date=2018-02-26}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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Hannah-Jones lives in the [[Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn|Bedford–Stuyvesant]] neighborhood of [[Brooklyn, New York|Brooklyn]] with her husband, Faraji Hannah-Jones, and their daughter.<ref name=Politico-LetterBlackAmerica-2015>{{cite news|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|title=A Letter From Black America: Yes, we fear the police. Here's why.|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/letter-from-black-america-police-115545_Page2.html#.VvCuoZMrLXE| |
Hannah-Jones lives in the [[Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn|Bedford–Stuyvesant]] neighborhood of [[Brooklyn, New York|Brooklyn]] with her husband, Faraji Hannah-Jones,<ref name=jo>{{cite news |last=Okeowo|first= Alexis |date=4 November 2021 |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones keeps her eyes on the prize |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/nikole-hannah-jones-keeps-her-eyes-on-the-prize |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazines)|Vanity Fair]] |access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref> and their daughter.<ref name=Politico-LetterBlackAmerica-2015>{{cite news |last1=Hannah-Jones |first1=Nikole |title=A Letter From Black America: Yes, we fear the police. Here's why. |url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/letter-from-black-america-police-115545_Page2.html#.VvCuoZMrLXE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305063429/http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/letter-from-black-america-police-115545_Page2.html#.VvCuoZMrLXE |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 5, 2015 |work=[[Politico]] |date=March 2015}}</ref> |
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==Awards== |
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* 2007, 2008, 2010: [[Society of Professional Journalists]], Pacific Northwest, Excellence in Journalism Award<ref name=ProPublica-Bio /> |
* 2007, 2008, 2010: [[Society of Professional Journalists]], Pacific Northwest, Excellence in Journalism Award<ref name=ProPublica-Bio /> |
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* 2012: [[Gannett Foundation]] Innovation in Watchdog Journalism Award<ref name=ProPublica-Bio /> |
* 2012: [[Gannett Foundation]] Innovation in Watchdog Journalism Award<ref name=ProPublica-Bio /> |
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* 2013: [[Sidney Award]]<ref name=SidneyHillmanFoundation-2013>{{cite news|title=This American Life Wins December Sidney for Shining a Light on Racial Profiling in the Housing Market|url=http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/american-life-wins-december-sidney-shining-light-racial-profiling-housing-market|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[The Sidney Hillman Foundation]]|date=December 2013}}</ref> |
* 2013: [[Sidney Award]]<ref name=SidneyHillmanFoundation-2013>{{cite news |title=This American Life Wins December Sidney for Shining a Light on Racial Profiling in the Housing Market |url=http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/american-life-wins-december-sidney-shining-light-racial-profiling-housing-market |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[The Sidney Hillman Foundation]] |date=December 2013}}</ref> |
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* 2013: Columbia University, Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award<ref name=Columbia-TobenkinAward-2013>{{cite web|title=Tobenkin Award: Past Winners – 2013|url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/802-tobenkin-award-past-winners/613|website=[[Columbia University]]|access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> |
* 2013: Columbia University, Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award<ref name=Columbia-TobenkinAward-2013>{{cite web |title=Tobenkin Award: Past Winners – 2013 |url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/802-tobenkin-award-past-winners/613 |website=[[Columbia University]] |access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> |
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* 2015: National Awards for Education Reporting, first prize, beat reporting |
* 2015: National Awards for Education Reporting, first prize, beat reporting |
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* 2015: [[National Association of Black Journalists]], Journalist of the Year<ref name=NABJ-JournalistofYear-2015>{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=Aprill|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones Named NABJ 2015 Journalist of the Year|url=http://www.nabj.org/news/228086/Nikole-Hannah-Jones-Named-NABJ-2015-Journalist-of-the-Year.htm|website=[[National Association of Black Journalists|National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)]]|access-date=22 March 2016|date=23 April 2015}}</ref><ref name=MaynardInstittue-NABJ-2015>{{cite news|last1=Prince|first1=Richard|title=NABJ "Journalist of Year" Says to Tell Blacks' Stories|url=http://mije.org/richardprince/2-reporters-face-charges-ferguson#joy|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education]]|date=10 August 2015}}</ref> |
* 2015: [[National Association of Black Journalists]], Journalist of the Year<ref name=NABJ-JournalistofYear-2015>{{cite web |last1=Turner |first1=Aprill |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones Named NABJ 2015 Journalist of the Year |url=http://www.nabj.org/news/228086/Nikole-Hannah-Jones-Named-NABJ-2015-Journalist-of-the-Year.htm |website=[[National Association of Black Journalists|National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)]] |access-date=22 March 2016 |date=23 April 2015}}</ref><ref name=MaynardInstittue-NABJ-2015>{{cite news |last1=Prince |first1=Richard |title=NABJ "Journalist of Year" Says to Tell Blacks' Stories |url=http://mije.org/richardprince/2-reporters-face-charges-ferguson#joy |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education]] |date=10 August 2015}}</ref> |
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* 2015: [[National Magazine Award]] finalist, public interest |
* 2015: [[National Magazine Award]] finalist, public interest |
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* 2015: Education Writers Association, Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting<ref name=EdWeek-Awards-2015>{{cite news|last1=Walsh|first1=Mark|title=ProPublica Report on Resegregation Takes Top Education Writers' Award|url=http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_and_the_media/2015/04/propublica_report_on_resegregation_takes_top_education_writers_award.html|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[Education Week]]|date=21 April 2015}}</ref> |
* 2015: Education Writers Association, Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting<ref name=EdWeek-Awards-2015>{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Mark |title=ProPublica Report on Resegregation Takes Top Education Writers' Award |url=http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_and_the_media/2015/04/propublica_report_on_resegregation_takes_top_education_writers_award.html |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[Education Week]] |date=21 April 2015}}</ref> |
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* 2015: Emerson College President's Award for Civic Leadership |
* 2015: Emerson College President's Award for Civic Leadership |
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* 2015: The Root 100<ref name=TheRoot-61-2015>{{cite news|title=61. Nikole Hannah-Jones|url=http://www.theroot.com/articles/lists/2015/09/the_root_100_2015/nikole_hannah_jones.html|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[The Root (magazine)|The Root]]|date=2015}}</ref> |
* 2015: The Root 100<ref name=TheRoot-61-2015>{{cite news |title=61. Nikole Hannah-Jones |url=http://www.theroot.com/articles/lists/2015/09/the_root_100_2015/nikole_hannah_jones.html |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[The Root (magazine)|The Root]] |date=2015}}</ref> |
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* 2016: [[George Polk Award]], radio reporting<ref name=NYTimes-Polk-2016>{{cite news|last1=Barron|first1=James|title=New York Times Journalists Among Winners of 2015 Polk Awards|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/nyregion/new-york-times-investigation-of-navy-seals-among-winners-of-2015-polk-awards.html|access-date=22 March 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=14 February 2016}}</ref> |
* 2016: [[George Polk Award]], radio reporting<ref name=NYTimes-Polk-2016>{{cite news |last1=Barron |first1=James |title=New York Times Journalists Among Winners of 2015 Polk Awards |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/nyregion/new-york-times-investigation-of-navy-seals-among-winners-of-2015-polk-awards.html |access-date=22 March 2016 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 February 2016}}</ref> |
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*2017: [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur]] Foundation Fellowship<ref name=":1" /> |
*2017: [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur]] Foundation Fellowship<ref name=":1" /> |
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*2017: National Magazine Award winner, public interest<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://asme.magazine.org/asme/ellie-awards/event-highlights/2017-national-magazine-awards|title=2017 National Magazine Awards |
*2017: National Magazine Award winner, public interest<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://asme.magazine.org/asme/ellie-awards/event-highlights/2017-national-magazine-awards |title=2017 National Magazine Awards |website=[[American Society of Magazine Editors]] |access-date=2019-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043050/https://asme.magazine.org/asme/ellie-awards/event-highlights/2017-national-magazine-awards |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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*2019: [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] Distinguished Alumna Award<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nikole Hannah-Jones '03 (M.A.) receives UNC's prestigious Distinguished Alumna Award|url=http://hussman.unc.edu/news/nikole-hannah-jones-03-ma-receives-unc%E2%80%99s-prestigious-distinguished-alumna-award|website=UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media|language=en|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref> |
*2019: [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] Distinguished Alumna Award<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nikole Hannah-Jones '03 (M.A.) receives UNC's prestigious Distinguished Alumna Award |url=http://hussman.unc.edu/news/nikole-hannah-jones-03-ma-receives-unc%E2%80%99s-prestigious-distinguished-alumna-award |date=October 14, 2019 |website=UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media |language=en |access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref> |
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*2020: [[2020 Pulitzer Prize]] for Commentary<ref name="2020Prize" /> |
*2020: [[2020 Pulitzer Prize]] for Commentary<ref name="2020Prize" /> |
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*2021: ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine 100<ref>{{cite web|url-access=subscription |last1=Murphy |first1=Kate |title=After UNC controversy, Nikole Hannah-Jones named to Time's most influential people list |url=https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article254257773.html |website=[[The News & Observer]] |access-date=15 November 2021|date=15 September 2021}}</ref> |
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*2022: [[53rd NAACP Image Awards|NAACP Image Award]] Social Justice Impact Award<ref>{{Cite web|title=Announcement of Social Justice Impact Award Honoree|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONlIUJICoQY|website=YouTube|publisher=NAACP Image Awards|language=en|access-date=2022-01-27}}</ref> |
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*2022: [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction]] for "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story"<ref name=":3" /> |
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*2023: [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series]] for [[The 1619 Project (TV series)|''The 1619 Project'']]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carey |first=Matthew |date=2024-01-08 |title=Polarizing 'The 1619 Project', Attacked By Conservatives, Earns Emmy Win For Oprah, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Roger Ross Williams & More |url=https://deadline.com/2024/01/creative-arts-emmys-the-1619-project-outstanding-documentary-series-win-1235698640/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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==Publications== |
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* Hannah-Jones, Nikole. ''Fields of Lost Dreams: How Race and Racism Have Contributed to the Overrepresentation of Blacks in the Iowa Prison System''. 2003. Print.<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Fields of lost dreams: how race and racism have contributed to the overrepresentation of blacks in the Iowa Prison System|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52891388|date=2003|language=English|first=Nikole|last=Hannah-Jones|oclc=52891388}}</ref> |
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* {{cite book |last=Hannah-Jones |first=Nikole |date=2012 |title=Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law |location=New York |publisher=ProPublica |isbn=978-1-453-25444-8 |oclc=825553231}} |
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* Hannah-Jones, Nikole. ''Living Apart''. ProPublica, 2012. Internet resource.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|url=http://www.totalboox.com/book/id-1981615839473760101|title=Living Apart.|last2=TotalBoox|last3=TBX|date=2012|publisher=ProPublica|isbn=978-1-4532-5444-8|language=English|oclc=969068432}}</ref> |
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* Hannah-Jones, Nikole. ''Segregation Now: Investigating America's Racial Divide''. 2014. Print.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953141562|title=Segregation now: investigating America's racial divide.|last2=American Bar Association Gavel Awards Archive|last3=ProPublica|last4=Gavel Awards Competition|date=2014|language=English|oclc=953141562}}</ref> |
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* Hannah-Jones, Nikole, and Allyson Johnson. ''The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery''. Minneapolis, Minn: Highbridge Audio, 2018. Internet resource.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|url=http://rbdigital.rbdigital.com/|title=The burden: African Americans and the enduring impact of slavery|last2=Johnson |first2=Allyson |last3=HighBridge Audio (Firm)|date=2018|publisher=Highbridge Audio|isbn=978-1-68441-393-5|location=Minneapolis, Minn.|language=English |oclc=1056242804}}</ref> |
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* Hannah-Jones, Nikole, Mary Elliott, Jazmine Hughes, and Jake Silverstein. ''The 1619 Project: New York Times Magazine, August 18, 2019''. 2019. Print.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113869362|title=The 1619 project: New York Times magazine, August 18, 2019.|last2=Elliott|first2=Mary, Hughes, Jazmine|last3=Silverstein|first3=Jake|last4=New York Times Company|last5=Smithsonian Institution|last6=1619 Project|date=2019 |language=English |oclc=1113869362}}</ref> |
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* Hannah-Jones, Nikole. ''The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story''. 2021. Print.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Nikole Hannah-Jones|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1272087963|title=The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.|date=2021|publisher=Random House Publishing |isbn=978-0-593-23057-2|language=English|oclc=1272087963}}</ref> |
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* Hannah-Jones, Nikole, Renée Watson, and [[Nikkolas Smith]]. ''The 1619 Project – Born on the Water''. 2021. Print.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Hannah-Jones|first1=Nikole|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1276781311|title=The 1619 Project - born on the water|last2=Watson|first2=Renée|last3=Smith|first3=Nikkolas|date=2021|publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-593-30735-9|language=English|oclc=1276781311}}</ref> |
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Nikole Hannah-Jones | |
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Born | Nikole Sheri Hannah April 9, 1976 Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. |
Education | University of Notre Dame (BA) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MA) |
Occupation | Journalist |
Years active | 2003–present |
Known for | Investigative journalism, activism |
Spouse | Faraji Hannah-Jones |
Children | 1 |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2017) Pulitzer Prize (2020) |
Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976)[1][2] is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. She joined The New York Times as a staff writer in April 2015, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020 for her work on The 1619 Project. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.[3][4][5]
Early life and education
[edit]Hannah-Jones was born in Waterloo, Iowa, to father Milton Hannah, who is African-American, and mother Cheryl A. Novotny, who is white and of Czech and English descent.[6] Hannah-Jones is the second of their three daughters.[7] She was raised Catholic.[8]
Hannah-Jones and her sister attended predominantly white schools as part of a voluntary program of desegregation busing.[9] She attended Waterloo West High School, where she wrote for the high-school newspaper and graduated in 1994.[10]
After high school, Hannah-Jones attended the University of Notre Dame, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and African-American studies in 1998.[11]
In 1995, in response to an article published in the Notre Dame student newspaper that called American Indians "savages", Hannah-Jones replied with a letter to the editor titled "Modern Savagery."[12] She stated: "I find it hard to believe that any member of the white race can have the audacity and hypocrisy to call any other culture savage. The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager and thief of the modern world....The crimes they committed were unnecessarily cruel and can only be described as acts of the devil."[13]
She graduated from the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media with a master's degree in 2003, where she was a Roy H. Park Fellow.[14][15]
Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Chicago State University at its 370th commencement ceremony on May 18, 2023.[16]
Career
[edit]In 2003, Hannah-Jones began her career covering education, which included the predominantly African-American Durham Public Schools, for the Raleigh News & Observer, a position she held for three years.[9]
In 2006, Hannah-Jones moved to Portland, Oregon, where she wrote for The Oregonian for six years. During this time, her assignments included feature work, demographics, and then government and census beats.[6]
In 2007, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots, Hannah-Jones wrote about the impact on the community of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission.[17]
From 2008 to 2009, Hannah-Jones received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies which enabled her to travel to Cuba to study universal healthcare and Cuba's educational system under Raúl Castro.[18][19][20]
In 2011, she joined the nonprofit news organization ProPublica, which is based in New York City, where she covered civil rights and continued research she had started in Oregon on redlining and in-depth investigative reporting on the lack of enforcement of the Fair Housing Act for minorities.[21] Hannah-Jones also spent time in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the decision in Brown v. Board of Education had little effect.[22]
Hannah-Jones was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.[23]
In January 2022, Hannah-Jones and teacher Sheritta Stokes launched the 1619 Freedom School in Waterloo, Iowa, inspired by the 1960s Freedom Schools of the civil-rights movement.[24] The program is a five-day-a-week, two-hour literacy enrichment for the Waterloo school district for grade-school students.[24]
The New York Times
[edit]In 2015, Hannah-Jones became a staff reporter for The New York Times.[25]
Hannah-Jones has written about topics such as racial segregation, desegregation and resegregation in American schools[26][27] and housing discrimination, and has spoken about these issues on national public radio broadcasts.[28][29]
She writes to discover and expose the systemic and institutional racism that she says are perpetuated by official laws and acts.[30]
Her work on racial inequalities has been particularly influential and is cited widely.[31] Hannah-Jones reported on the school district where teenager Michael Brown had been shot, one of the "most segregated, impoverished districts in the entire state" of Missouri.[32][33] Reviewer Laura Moser of Slate praised her report on school resegregation, which showed how educational inequality may have been a factor in the death of Brown.[34]
Hannah-Jones was a 2017 Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation,[35] where she worked on a book on school segregation.[36] The book, The Problem We All Live With, was due out in June 2020 from Random House's One World imprint.[citation needed]
Hannah-Jones is a 2017 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation fellowship.[37] The award cited her "Chronicling the persistence of racial segregation in American society, particularly in education, and reshaping national conversations around education reform."[38]
1619 Project
[edit]In 2019, Hannah-Jones launched a project to fundamentally change the way slavery in the United States was viewed, timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia.[39] Hannah-Jones produced a series of articles for a special issue of The New York Times Magazine titled The 1619 Project.[40] The ongoing initiative began August 14, 2019, and "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative."[41] The project featured essays by a combination of staff writers and academics including Princeton historian Kevin M. Kruse, Harvard-trained lawyer Bryan Stevenson, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond, and SUNY historian Anne Bailey. In the opening essay, Hannah-Jones wrote: "No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed." The project also included poems, short fiction, and a photo essay. Originally conceived of as a special issue, it was soon turned into a full-fledged project, including a special broadsheet section in the newspaper, live events, and a multi-episode podcast series.
In 2020, Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work on the 1619 Project.[42] The award cited her "sweeping, provocative and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America's story, prompting public conversation about the nation's founding and evolution."[43] Her paper was criticized by historians Gordon S. Wood and Leslie M. Harris, specifically for asserting that "one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery."[44][45][46] The article was "clarified" in March 2020 to read "for some of the colonists".[47] There was also debate around whether the project suggested the nation was founded in 1619 with the arrival of enslaved Africans rather than in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence.[48] Speaking to New York Times opinion writer Bret Stephens, Hannah-Jones said the suggestion of considering 1619, as a jumping-off point for interpreting US history had always been so self-evidently metaphorical that it went without saying.[49]
New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute named the 1619 Project as one of the 10 greatest works of journalism in the decade from 2010 to 2019.[50] In 2022, Hannah-Jones was nominated at the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction and was recognized with the Social Justice Impact Award.[51]
University of North Carolina
[edit]In April 2021, the University of North Carolina announced that Hannah-Jones would join the Hussman School of Journalism and Media in July 2021 as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism.[52] Following criticism, particularly from conservative groups who expressed disagreement with the 1619 Project and questioned Hannah-Jones's credentials, the University Board of Trustees, presented with the tenure committee's recommendation to approve her application for tenure, instead took no action.[53][54] Unable to offer tenure without approval by its trustees, UNC announced they would instead offer a fixed five-year contract with an option for tenure review—terms to which Hannah-Jones agreed.[55]
Outraged, more than 40 Hussman faculty members signed a statement criticizing the board's inaction, noting that the previous two Knight Chairs were given tenure and claiming that UNC "unfairly moves the goal posts" by not offering Hannah-Jones the same.[56][57] The school's Black Caucus also condemned the terms of her contract, and students joined faculty in protests.[58][59][60] Hannah-Jones stated: "It's pretty clear that my tenure was not taken up because of political opposition, because of discriminatory views against my viewpoint and, I believe, [because of] my race and my gender."[61] In late June 2021, Hannah-Jones, via a letter from her lawyers, said she will not take a faculty position with the university unless it is offered as a tenured position.[55] On June 30, 2021, the Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted in a closed session to include tenure in the position offer.[62][63]
Howard University
[edit]Hannah-Jones refused the position at North Carolina and decided to accept a tenured position at Howard University instead, where she will be the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism.[61][64][65] Hannah-Jones said, "Once the news broke and I started to see the extent of the political interference, particularly the reporting on Walter Hussman, it became really clear to me that I just could not work at a school named after Walter Hussman. To be a person who has stood for what I stand for and have any integrity whatsoever, I just couldn't see how I could do that."[66]
Ta-Nehisi Coates will join Hannah-Jones at Howard as the Sterling Brown Chair in the English Department.[67] Hannah-Jones also brings $20 million to Howard to support her work there, $5 million each from the Knight Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.[65]
Controversies and criticism
[edit]Criticism of the 1619 Project (2019, 2022)
[edit]Five historians wrote to The New York Times Magazine to ask the creators of its 1619 Project to issue corrections, including for Hannah-Jones's assertions on the American Revolution and on Lincoln. The correction request was signed by Victoria Bynum of Texas State University, James M. McPherson and Sean Wilentz of Princeton University, James Oakes of the City University of New York, and Gordon S. Wood of Brown University.[68] Historian Leslie M. Harris, who was consulted for the Project, wrote in Politico that she had warned that the idea that the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery was inaccurate, and that the Times made avoidable mistakes.[46]
In the May 2022 issue of the libertarian magazine Reason, reporter Phillip W. Magness criticized the 1619 Project as "junk history".[69] William Simons of the State University of New York at Oneonta, wrote: "Unfortunately, the prescription provided by Hannah-Jones in the conclusion to The 1619 Project for overcoming slavery's legacy of racial inequity is more aspirational than analytic. Certainly, she is correct that rights without substantive economic redress are not enough. It is a tragedy that following the Civil War, the property of masters was not confiscated and redistributed to former slaves. However, Hannah-Jones's agenda—reparations for descendants of slaves, as well as national health care and other social welfare programs for all Americans—provides no cost analysis, details, or assessment of the political climate. In January 2023, it took the US House of Representatives fifteen ballots to even elect a speaker."[70]
Fireworks tweet (2020)
[edit]In June 2020, Hannah-Jones apologized for retweeting a conspiracy theory claiming that fireworks were being set off by "government agents" to dampen the Black Lives Matter movement.[71][72][73][74]
Chick-fil-A story (2024)
[edit]Hannah-Jones questioned the veracity of a 2024 essay in The Atlantic by a former New York Times editor who said he had been chastised by human resources due to eating at Chick-fil-A, given the CEO's position against same-sex marriage. The Atlantic asserted that the story had been fact-checked and confirmed with multiple Times employees, and journalists Robby Soave, Erik Wemple, and Jonathan Chait also supported the magazine.[75][76][77]
Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
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In 2016, Nikole Hannah-Jones, along with Ron Nixon, Corey Johnson, and Topher Sanders, launched the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2016, to promote investigative journalism.[78]
Personal life
[edit]Hannah-Jones lives in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn with her husband, Faraji Hannah-Jones,[79] and their daughter.[80]
Awards
[edit]- 2007, 2008, 2010: Society of Professional Journalists, Pacific Northwest, Excellence in Journalism Award[21]
- 2012: Gannett Foundation Innovation in Watchdog Journalism Award[21]
- 2013: Sidney Award[81]
- 2013: Columbia University, Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award[82]
- 2015: National Awards for Education Reporting, first prize, beat reporting
- 2015: National Association of Black Journalists, Journalist of the Year[83][84]
- 2015: National Magazine Award finalist, public interest
- 2015: Education Writers Association, Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting[85]
- 2015: Emerson College President's Award for Civic Leadership
- 2015: The Root 100[86]
- 2016: George Polk Award, radio reporting[87]
- 2017: MacArthur Foundation Fellowship[37]
- 2017: National Magazine Award winner, public interest[88]
- 2019: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Distinguished Alumna Award[89]
- 2020: 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary[42]
- 2021: Time magazine 100[90]
- 2022: NAACP Image Award Social Justice Impact Award[91]
- 2022: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction for "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story"[51]
- 2023: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for The 1619 Project[92]
Publications
[edit]- Hannah-Jones, Nikole. Fields of Lost Dreams: How Race and Racism Have Contributed to the Overrepresentation of Blacks in the Iowa Prison System. 2003. Print.[93]
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole. Living Apart. ProPublica, 2012. Internet resource.[94]
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole. Segregation Now: Investigating America's Racial Divide. 2014. Print.[95]
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole, and Allyson Johnson. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery. Minneapolis, Minn: Highbridge Audio, 2018. Internet resource.[96]
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole, Mary Elliott, Jazmine Hughes, and Jake Silverstein. The 1619 Project: New York Times Magazine, August 18, 2019. 2019. Print.[97]
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. 2021. Print.[98]
- Hannah-Jones, Nikole, Renée Watson, and Nikkolas Smith. The 1619 Project – Born on the Water. 2021. Print.[99]
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- ^ Hannah-Jones, Nikole; Watson, Renée; Smith, Nikkolas (2021). The 1619 Project - born on the water. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-593-30735-9. OCLC 1276781311.
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