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Writers

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Best Article

Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

Nikole Hannah-Jones New York Times Magazine Jun 2016 15min Permalink

What Is Owed

If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans.

Nikole Hannah-Jones New York Times Magazine Jun 2020 30min Permalink

Best Article History

America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One

Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.

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Hannah-Jones on the Longform Podcast

Nikole Hannah-Jones New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Music

Trauma

An interview with Meek Mill.

Nikole Hannah-Jones New York Times Magazine Mar 2019 10min Permalink

History

Ghosts of Greenwood

A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.

Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Jul 2014 30min Permalink

Best Article

The Resegregation of Jefferson County

What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.

Nikole Hannah-Jones New York Times Magazine Sep 2017 40min Permalink

Science

A Prescription for More Black Doctors

The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.

Nikole Hannah-Jones New York Times Magazine Sep 2015 20min Permalink

School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson

Michael Brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death—odds that remain stacked against black students in St. Louis and the rest of the country.

Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Dec 2014 20min Permalink

Segregation Now

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, Southern schools have been resegregated.

Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica Apr 2014 40min Permalink