{"id":26246,"date":"2021-09-07T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T16:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=26246"},"modified":"2022-01-03T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T13:47:54","slug":"26246","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/event\/26246\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Speaker Series presents Nikole Hannah-Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nikole Hannah-Jones<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Creator of “The 1619 Project” | New York Times Magazine Staff Writer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMEMORATION KETNOTE SPEAKER<\/p>\n

Free tickets available for graduate students starting February 1st at 9:00am online<\/a> through the UB Ticket Office.\u00a0 1 per UB ID.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wed., Feb. 16, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.
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More About Nikole Hannah-Jones<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Nikole Hannah-Jones is a MacArthur Genius for \u201creshaping national conversations around education reform.\u201d This is but one honor in a growing list: She is the creator of the\u00a0New York Times Magazine\u2019s \u201cThe 1619 Project,\u201d about the history and lasting legacy of American slavery, for which her powerful introductory essay was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She’s also won a Peabody, two George Polk awards, and the National Magazine Award\u00a0three times.<\/p>\n

Nikole Hannah-Jones covers racial injustice for\u00a0The New York Times Magazine, and has spent years chronicling the way official policy has created\u2014and maintains\u2014racial segregation in housing and schools. Her deeply personal reports on the Black experience in America offer a compelling case for greater equity.\u00a0 Hannah-Jones is the creator and lead writer of the\u00a0<\/i>New York Times\u2019 major multimedia initiative, \u201cThe 1619 Project.\u201d Named for the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in America, the project features an ongoing series of essays and art on the relationship between slavery and everything from social infrastructure and segregation, to music and sugar\u2014all by Black American authors, activists, journalists and more. Hannah-Jones wrote the project\u2019s introductory essay, which ran under the powerful headline \u201cOur Democracy\u2019s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True.\u201d The essay earned Hannah-Jones her first Pulitzer Prize, for commentary. Random House has also announced it will be adapting the project into a graphic novel and four publications for young readers, while also releasing an extended version of the original publication, including more essays, fiction, and poetry.\u00a0Two of these, \u201cThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story\u201d and \u201cBorn On The Water\u201d will be released in November 2021.<\/p>\n

Hannah-Jones has written extensively on the history of racism, school resegregation, and the disarray of hundreds of desegregation orders, as well as the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act. She is currently writing a book on school segregation called\u00a0\u201cThe Problem We All Live With,\u201d to be published on the One World imprint of Penguin\/Random House. Her piece \u201cWorlds Apart\u201d in\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0Magazine won the National Magazine Award for \u201cjournalism that illuminates issues of national importance\u201d as well as the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism. In 2016, she was awarded a Peabody Award and George Polk Award for radio reporting for her \u201cThis American Life\u201d story, \u201cThe Problem We All Live With.\u201d She was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists, and was also named to 2019\u2019s The Root 100 as well as\u00a0Essence\u2019s Woke 100. Her reporting has also won Deadline Club Awards, Online Journalism Awards, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, and\u00a0the Emerson College President\u2019s Award for Civic Leadership. In February 2020, she was profiled by\u00a0Essence\u00a0as part of their Black History Month series, celebrating \u201cthe accomplishments made by those in the past, as well as those paving the way for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting with the goal of increasing the number of reporters and editors of color. She holds a master of arts in mass communication from the University of North Carolina and earned her bachelor of arts in history and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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