Nikole Hannah-Jones Biography
Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. In April 2015, she became a staff writer for The New York Times. In 2017 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and in 2020 she won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her work on The 1619 project.
How old is Nikole Hannah-Jones? – Age
The American investigative journalist is 45 years old as of 9th April 2021. She was born in 1976 in Waterloo, Iowa, United States.
Who are Nikole Hannah-Jones Parents? – father and mother
The American investigative journalist is the daughter to father Milton Hannah, who is African-American, and mother Cheryl A. Novotny, who is White and of Czech and English descent. In 1947 her father, at the age of two, along with his mother and older brother, left Greenwood, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, heading north by train to Iowa, as did many other African-American families, determined to avoid a life of “picking cotton in the feudal society that was the Mississippi Delta”.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Siblings
The American investigative journalist is note the only child in the family. She has siblings. She is the second of three sisters. Her and her sister attended almost all-white schools as part of a voluntary program of desegregation busing.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Education
The American investigative journalist attended Waterloo West High school, where she wrote for the high school newspaper and graduated in 1994. She earned a bachelor’s degree in History and African-American Studies from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 1998. She graduated from the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media with a master’s degree in 2003, where she was a Roy H. Park Fellow.
Is Nikole Hannah-Jones in a relationship? – Spouse
Yes, the American investigative journalist is in love. She is a married woman. She is married to her husband Faraji Hannah-Jones. The pair is madly in love with each other. Currently they are enjoying parenting life together.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Children
The American investigative journalist after few years in marriage with her husband, Faraji, the pair were blessed with a child. They have one child known as Najya Hannah- Jones, who they fully supports and loves.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Career
The American investigative journalist began her career covering the education beat in 2003, which included the predominantly African American Durham Public schools, for the Raleigh News & Observer, a position she held for three years
In 2006, she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she wrote for The Oregonian for six years. In 2007, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots, she wrote about its impact on the community for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner commission.
From 2008 to 2009, the investigative journalist received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies which enabled her to travel to Cuba to study universal healthcare and Cuba’s educational system under Raul Castro.
In 2011, she joined the nonprofit news organization proPublica, which is based in New York City, where she covered civil rights and continued research she started in Oregon on redlining and in-depth investigative reporting on the lack of enforcement of the Fair Housing Act for minorities.
The investigative journalist also spent time in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the decision in Brown V. Board of Education had little effect. In 2015, she became a staff reporter for The New York Times. She has written about topics such as racial segregation, desegregation and resegregation in American schools and housing discrimination, and has spoken about these issues on national public radio broadcasts.
She writes to discover and expose the systemic and institutional racism that she says are perpetuated by official laws and acts. Her work on racial inequalities has been particularly influential and is cited widely.
The investigative journalist was a 2017 Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation, where she worked on a book on school segregation. The book, The Problem We All Live With, is due out in June 2020 from Chris Jackson’s One World imprint at Random House.
In 2019, She launched a project to re-examine the legacy of slavery in the United States, timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia. She produced a series of articles for a special issue of The New York Times Magazine titled The 1619 project.
In 2020, the investigative journalist won a Pulitzer prize for Commentary for her work on the 1619 Project. New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute named the 1619 Project as one of the 10 greatest works of journalism in the decade from 2010 to 2019. She was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and sciences in 2021.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Net worth
The American investigative journalist has an estimated net worth of around $1 million to $5 million as of 2021.
