Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Hannah-Jones

“Race And Education In America”

October 30, 2018 | 6 p.m. | Miller Auditorium, WMU
Kalamazoo Community Foundation’s 2018 Community Meeting

This event requires registration (free).

“When we look at racial inequality, police violence for instance, it’s very visible, and it’s very visceral and it’s very easy to have a reaction to that,” says Hannah-Jones. “But it’s much harder to see why neighborhoods are segregated, who’s pulling the strings, how did this happen? And I see my job as exposing how things are working behind the scenes to create the reality that we all live in.”

Nikole Hannah-Jones was named a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow for “reshaping national conversations around education reform” and for her reporting on racial re-segregation in our schools. Hannah-Jones has won many awards for her reporting including, in 2017, a National Magazine Award for her story on choosing a school for her daughter in a segregated city. She has written extensively on the history of racism, school resegregation, as well as the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act. Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. She holds a Master of Arts in mass communication from the University of North Carolina and earned her B.A. in history and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame. Along with The New York Times, her reporting has been featured in ProPublica, The Atlantic Magazine, Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, The Week Magazine, Grist, Politico Magazine, and on Face the Nation, This American Life, NPR, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Democracy Now, and radio stations across the country.

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