"I see my work as forcing us to confront our hypocrisy, forcing us to confront the truth that we would rather ignore."
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter covering racial injustice for the New York Times Magazine. She investigates the way racial segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy.
Nikole has written extensively about school resegregation across the country and the utter disarray of hundreds of school desegregation orders. She has also chronicled the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act and wrote one of the most widely read analyses of the racial implications of the controversial Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action Supreme Court case.
In 2016, Nikole Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigative reporters of color.
"IN A COUNTRY BUILT ON RACIAL CASTE, WE MUST CONFRONT THE FACT THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE NOT BROKEN." "THEY ARE OPERATING AS DESIGNED."
Nikole's first book, "The Problem We All Live With," is coming in 2020. This book will explore black America's centuries-long struggle to get an equal education, and why integrated schools are the linchpin of our democracy.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, May 15 | Detroit, Michigan
HighScope International Conference
Monday, May 20 | The Berkeley Carroll School - Brooklyn, New York
The Diversity Committee Presents: Nikole Hannah-Jones
Wednesday, Jun 26 | New Orleans, Louisiana
QRIS 2019: Expanding Reach, Enhancing Impact, Advancing Equity
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If the poignant genius of Ida B. Wells and the effervescent fierceness of Beyoncé could co-exist in one person, Hannah-Jones is the writing, truth-telling, fire-starting prototype.