Nikole Hannah-Jones won a Pulitzer Prize for her lead essay in “The 1619 Project,” which argued for America’s origins not in the Declaration of Independence but in enslavement. Nikole is my homegirl, and like me, she believes that journalism, history, and literature have a place in our fight to make a better world. I had the great fortune of watching her build “The 1619 Project,” of being on the receiving end of texts with highlighted pages from history books, of hearing her speak on the thrilling experience of telling our story, some four hundred years after we arrived here, in all the
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