In the opening general session of the ALA annual meeting, journalist and author of THE 1619 PROJECT, A NEW ORIGIN STORY Nikole Hannah-Jones discussed the origins of and responses to the project and the upcoming book. In conversation with publisher and eic of One World Chris Jackson, she made no mention of her tenure rejection at UNC, but focused instead on the original New York Times Magazine piece and how it challenges education and patriotism. The origins began when as a teenager in Iowa, she took the one Black studies class that was offered at her high school, the first […]
