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The past is never dead. It's not even pastNOT EVEN PASTSearch the site ...   Like 0TweetLittle eld Lecture Series2021 with Nikole Hannah-JonesThe Department of History’s Little eld Lecture Series is pleased to host a conversationand moderated audience Q&A with Nikole Hannah-Jones.NIKOLE HANNAH-JONESPulitzer Prize-Winning Creator of “The 1619 Project”;Staff Writer, The New York Times Magazine;Winner of the MacArthur Genius Award, and of the National Magazine Awardhttp://nikolehannahjones.com/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/11/magazine/11nikole.htmlin conversation withDR. DAINA RAMEY BERRYChair of the Department of History, and Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of HistoryThe University of Texas at Austinhttp://www.drdainarameyberry.com/https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/db27553Registration: http://bit.ly/reg-hannah-jonesWednesday, March 10. 12:00-1:00pm CST. Online. Free and Open to the Public.Privacy  - TermsHannah-Jones was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2017 for “reshaping nationalconversations around education reform.” This is but one honor in a growing list: She isthe creator of the The New York Times Magazine’s “The 1619 Project,” about the historyand lasting legacy of American slavery, for which her powerful introductory essay wasawarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She’s also won a Peabody, two George Polkawards, and the National Magazine Awards three times.Hannah-Jones covers racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and has spentyears chronicling the way o cial policy has created—and maintains—racial segregationin housing and schools. Her deeply personal reports on the Black experience in Americaoffer a compelling case for greater equity. Hannah-Jones is the creator and lead writerof the New York Times’ major multimedia initiative, “The 1619 Project.” Named for theyear the  rst enslaved Africans arrived in America, the project features an ongoing seriesof essays and art on the relationship between slavery and everything from socialinfrastructure and segregation, to music and sugar—all by Black American authors,activists, journalists, and more. Hannah-Jones wrote the project’s introductory essay,which ran under the powerful headline “Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were FalseWhen They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True.” The essayearned Hannah-Jones her  rst Pulitzer Prize, for commentary. Random House has alsoannounced it will be adapting the project into a graphic novel and four publications foryoung readers, while also releasing an extended version of the original publication,including more essays,  ction, and poetry. Hannah-Jones has written extensively on the history of racism, school resegregation,and the disarray of hundreds of desegregation orders, as well as the decades-longfailure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act. She iscurrently writing a book on school segregation called The Problem We All Live With, tobe published on the One World imprint of Penguin/Random House. Her piece “WorldsApart” in The New York Times Magazine won the National Magazine Award for“journalism that illuminates issues of national importance” as well as the Hillman Prizefor Magazine Journalism. In 2016, she was awarded a Peabody Award and George PolkAward for radio reporting for her This American Life story, “The Problem We All LiveWith.” She was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of BlackJournalists, and was also named to 2019’s The Root 100 as well as Essence’s Woke100. Her reporting has also won Deadline Club Awards, Online Journalism Awards, theSigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize forDistinguished Education Reporting, and  the Emerson College President’s Award forCivic Leadership. In February 2020, she was pro led by Essence as part of their BlackRECENT POSTSIHS Book Talk: “Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile,” by Joshua Frens-String,University of Texas at AustinIHS Podcast: Colonial Peru’s Fractional Freedoms meet Morgan’s thesis: American Freedom, American SlaveryTeaching Global Environmental HistoryNEP Author Spotlight – Nathan StoneReview of The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem by Kristin A. Wintersteen(2021)NOT EVEN PAST is produced byThe Department of HistoryTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN We are supported by the College of Liberal ArtsAnd our READERSDONATECONTACTAll content © 2010-present NOT EVEN PAST and the authors, unless otherwise notedSign up to receive the monthly Not Even Past newsletterSUBSCRIBEHistory Month series, celebrating “the accomplishments made by those in the past, aswell as those paving the way for the future.” Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting with thegoal of increasing the number of reporters and editors of color. She holds a Master ofArts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina and earned her BA inHistory and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.Please share widely with your interested colleagues and networks. Thank you.For event questions or technical issues, please email: cmeador@austin.utexas.edu.Posted March 4, 2021More BlogYour email addressFEATURES BOOKS TEACHING DIGITAL & FILMBLOG IHS TEXAS SPOTLIGHTABOUT

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