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Nikole Hannah-Jones

1976–

United States

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Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976) is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of racial discrimination in American schools and for her work on The 1619 Project, for which she won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Hannah-Jones has been a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine since 2015 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.

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