Nikole Hannah-Jones
New York, United States
Rising Voices
Coralie Custos Quatreville: “Investigating, researching, and ultimately repositioning a date within the broader sweep of history can, in some cases, unsettle an entire chapter of a national narrative.”
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist covering racial injustice in the United States. She created The 1619 Project, the New York Times Magazine issue and ongoing initiative reframing American history around slavery and the contributions of Black Americans. Her earlier reporting traced how school segregation persists decades after Brown v. Board of Education. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017 and the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020, co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society
Rising Voices · investigative journalism · racial justice · public history · education equity · narrative change · press freedom · media representation
Curated by Coralie Custos Quatreville
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