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.
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.
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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.