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@nhannahjones

Reporter covering race from 1619-present//AKA The Beyoncé of Journalism//Co-founder //smart and thuggish//

nhannahjones@nytimes.com
Joined March 2009

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    The published online today and it is my profound hope that we will reframe for our readers the way we understand our nation, the legacy of slavery, and most importantly, the unparalleled role black people have played in this democracy.

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    Feb 1

    Breaking: A group of Instacart workers in Chicago just voted to unionize-- a historic first. This victory sends a powerful message to gig workers around the country who are fed up with working conditions.

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  3. By banning people from the most populous black nation in the world from traveling to the U.S.? Happy Black History Month.

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  4. *was

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  5. This is a tremendous piece of journalism when it came out and speaks directly to the work of the .

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  6. The country with the largest black population in the world.

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    Black woman historian here and sorry to see overlook the young women, including those students at , who were equally part of this historic moment in ! Let’s do better ! Learn even more here:

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    Feb 1

    “15 seconds after I sat on that stool I had the most wonderful feeling. I had the feeling of liberation and restored manhood.” - Franklin McCain On sitting at a ‘Whites Only’ Wooolworth lunch counter.

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  10. Are we a match made in heaven?

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  11. Langston Hughes was the first black literary writer I’d ever been assigned. It was high school, and his very short poem, “A Dream Deferred,” but it made me realize something was out there that I didn’t know. I checked out several of his short story books. I was transformed.

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    To celebrate Black History Month, we will be posting facts every day throughout the month of February to showcase excellence in black investigative journalism.

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    Nigeria has the largest Black population in the world. And Nigerian immigrants are the most educated immigrant group in this country. But no amount of education or “assimilation” can counter immigration policy rooted solely in anti-Blackness & Islamophobia

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    Feb 1

    February 1, 1960. Four college students, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr., and Joseph McNeil, sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, NC. They changed history.

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    Feb 1

    “Robert Lumpkin was one of the South’s most prolific and brutal slave traders. Mary Lumpkin lived with him — and with the horror of who he was, bearing witness to the extreme punishments he meted out to enslaved people like her.”

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    Feb 1

    More from investigation into possible wrongful conviction of Minnesota man. Jury foreman says he regrets voting to convict in the 2002 case of the then teen. Presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar was the prosecutor.

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  18. And this here so perfectly sums up *why* the exists.

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  19. I’m just now getting to this, but this was damn good. What I’ve loved about the debate around the is how it is bringing to the public a greater understanding of how history/historiography works, and that there’s never been such a thing as “objective” history.

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    Feb 1

    1) Ok people Black History, African American History is American History! We been here since before the founding of the USA. If you don’t understand, order a copy of the issue curated by on sale at

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    Feb 1

    FEB. 26!: we are thrilled to welcome Nikole Hannah-Jones () to . Address: “Reflections on 1619 & the 400 Years that Built a Nation.” Free & open to public, but tickets required. Tickets & event info here: .

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