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Nikole Hannah-Jones

Responding to the critics of my piece “Kid Gloves” (1619 Project)

John Fea   |  July 16, 2023

It looks like my feature we published on Friday at Current received some attention on Twitter. I’m glad people are reading it and, for the most part, taking it seriously. For the record, here is everything I have written at […]

The latest Christian Right critique of the 1619 Project is full of problems. Let’s break it down.

John Fea   |  January 16, 2022

Jerry Newcombe is a writer and local Florida radio host who comes out of the D. James Kennedy (Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church of Ft. Lauderdale) wing of conservative evangelicals. He is also the president of a Christian nationalist historical organization […]

Well, I guess the University of North Carolina blew that one

John Fea   |  July 7, 2021

Did you hear that the University of North Carolina finally gave tenure to former New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones? Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the controversial 1619 Project. After North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media […]

Nikole Hannah-Jones of 1619 Project fame joins the faculty of the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill

John Fea   |  May 1, 2021

Here is the Associated Press: Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school in July as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. Hannah-Jones, who covers […]