The Sussman Lecture: A conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones Friday, April 9, 2021 4:15 PM Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Nikole Hannah-Jones has Waterloo tattooed on her wrist. It reminds her, she said Thursday, of the Iowa city that made her and ultimately influenced the creation of the 1619 Project, a multimedia investigation into America’s racial history developed and led by Hannah-Jones at the New York Times. I wanted to show that you could treat racial inequality as an investigative beat, Hannah-Jones told Drake University professor Jennifer Harvey over Zoom at the 2021 Sussman Lecture, hosted by the Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement. I’ve been studying and thinking about the arguments of 1619 since I was a college student, and I used to always joke with my editors that eventually my stories were all going to get back to 1619. I always put a lot of history in them, but I was never able to get all
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