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Nikole Hannah-Jones: 'If we do nothing, they will co-opt our history and use it against us'

Count on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to pull white supremacists in hiding right into the light. Author of “The 1619 Project,” which asserts that “no aspect of the country” …

Tue Jan 18, 2022

James Carville's rebuke of 'wokeness' is nothing more than a rebuke of Blackness

A conversation has unfolded on social media—and God help us all—it has the audacity to be about the concept of being “woke,” “staying woke,” and all matters “wokeness”-related. This idea of staying …

Mon Nov 8, 2021

Why I refuse to send my children to schools that don't celebrate them

As a Black woman and a mother of two young children in Georgia, I spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the messaging my children receive, what they learn, how they learn it, and from …

Sat Jul 31, 2021

Fearmongers are driving quality educators away to advocate for lies about critical race theory

It’s been more than a month since a Tennessee school board voted to dismiss a teacher accused of racism for assigning his contemporary issues students content some parents and administrators deemed …

Tue Jul 13, 2021

Hannah-Jones rejects UNC tenure offer. She, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and $20 million are going to Howard

On June 30, the University of North Carolina finally decided—over the political objections of one of its major donors—that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was good enough for …

Tue Jul 6, 2021