Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is coming to North Carolina to discuss The 1619 Project [View all]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is returning to North Carolina as a keynote speaker for the annual Writers Week event at UNC Wilmington in November.

Hannah-Jones will discuss her award-winning work on The 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine project that reframes the legacy of slavery and places the contributions of Black Americans at the forefront of the country’s history.

“The story she tells is both familiar and also absolutely groundbreaking,” UNCW creative writing associate professor Rebecca Lee said. “It surprised me that something that felt so intimate could also be telling the story of the nation.”

Lee helped organize the creative writing department’s annual Writers Week events and worked to bring Hannah-Jones to campus.

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