1. Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones was born on April 9,1976 and is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States.
22 Facts About Nikole Hannah-Jones
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Nikole Hannah-Jones joined The New York Times as a staff writer in April 2015, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020 for her work on The 1619 Project.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones attended Waterloo West High School, where she wrote for the high-school newspaper and graduated in 1994.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones graduated from the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media with a master's degree in 2003, where she was a Roy H Park Fellow.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Chicago State University at its 370th commencement ceremony on May 18,2023.
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In 2006, Nikole Hannah-Jones moved to Portland, Oregon, where she wrote for The Oregonian for six years.
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In 2007, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote about the impact on the community of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission.
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From 2008 to 2009, Nikole Hannah-Jones received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies which enabled her to travel to Cuba to study universal healthcare and Cuba's educational system under Raul Castro.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
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In 2015, Nikole Hannah-Jones became a staff reporter for The New York Times.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones has written about topics such as racial segregation, desegregation and resegregation in American schools and housing discrimination, and has spoken about these issues on national public radio broadcasts.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones writes to discover and expose the systemic and institutional racism that she says are perpetuated by official laws and acts.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones reported on the school district where teenager Michael Brown had been shot, one of the "most segregated, impoverished districts in the entire state" of Missouri.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones was a 2017 Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation, where she worked on a book on school segregation.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones is a 2017 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation fellowship.
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In 2019, Nikole Hannah-Jones launched a project to fundamentally change the way slavery in the United States was viewed, timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones produced a series of articles for a special issue of The New York Times Magazine titled The 1619 Project.
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In 2020, Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her work on the 1619 Project.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones refused the position at North Carolina and decided to accept a tenured position at Howard University instead, where she will be the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones brings $20 million to Howard to support her work there, $5 million each from the Knight Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and an anonymous donor.
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In June 2020, Nikole Hannah-Jones apologized for retweeting a conspiracy theory claiming that fireworks were being set off by "government agents" to dampen the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones questioned the veracity of a 2024 essay in The Atlantic by a former New York Times editor who said he had been chastised by human resources due to eating at Chick-fil-A, given the former CEO's position against same-sex marriage.