THE
REFRAMING HISTORY THROUGH SLAVERY’S LEGACY with
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES New York Times Magazine Staff Writer MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow Winner of the National Magazine Award
Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Scholar for the Hofstra Cultural Center
Monday, February 3, 2020 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater, John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus In collaboration with The New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones is the creator of the landmark 1619 Project which commemorates the 400th year of slavery in what would become the United States. The Project examines slavery’s modern legacy and reframes the way we understand this history and the contributions of black Americans to the nation. Nikole Hannah-Jones was named a MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow (one of only 24 people chosen, globally) for “reshaping national conversations around education reform” and for her reporting on racial re-segregation in our schools. This is the latest honor in a growing list: she’s won a Peabody, a Polk, and a National Magazine Award. Ms. Hannah-Jones covers racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and has spent years chronicling the way official policy has created—and maintains—racial segregation in housing and schools. Her deeply personal reports on the black experience in America offer a compelling case for greater equity. She has written extensively on the history of racism, school resegregation, and the disarray of hundreds of desegregation orders, as well as the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act. She is currently writing a book on school segregation called The Problem We All Live With, to be published on the One World imprint of Penguin/Random House. Presented in conjunction with the series The Legacy 1619-2019, recognizing the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to North America and the ongoing experience of African Americans. All events are FREE and open to the public. For a full schedule of Legacy 1619-2019 programming events, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture. Join the #Hof1619 conversation on social media.