Nikole Hannah-Jones joined Times executive editor Kevin Merida for an insightful L.A. Times Book Club conversation about her book 'The 1619 Project.'
Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones joins Times readers to discuss the legacy of slavery in America.Since its launch in August 2019 as a multimedia project — taking over an entire magazine issue, a podcast and a special issue and later even becoming a— “The 1619 Project,” which posits that the maintenance of slavery was intrinsic to the drive for American independence, has become a lightning rod for attention positive and negative.
“And as a great Black educator will do, he kept very real with me and he said, ‘Either join the paper and write those stories yourself or shut up and don’t come here complaining to me about it,’” she recalled with a laugh. “Ancestral intervention,” said Hannah-Jones, a self-described “agnostic,” who added that she was only half-joking., like some act of intervention,” she explained. “Because there’s no reason this project should exist as it, does knowing everything that we know about the industry” — one that has historically centered, catered to and been dominated by white people.
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