Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from Waterloo, gave a sort of homecoming address Nov. 4 on the Iowa State University campus in Ames, speaking about The New York Times’ landmark 1619 Project.
The 1619 Project, conceived by Jones, has singlehandedly foregrounded southern plantation slavery as a fundamental — even the fundamental — dynamic of American history.
“The book is an argument for the centrality of slavery in the American story,” said Hannah-Jones in her Ames talk.
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