Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who created the 1619 Project on slavery for The New York Times Magazine, discusses how her work frequently explores the structural inequality created by racism in the U.S. “Journalism is one of the greatest and most empowering professions in the world,” she says.
Hannah-Jones was interviewed in our episode featuring the story of Charlotta Spears Bass, a crusading newspaper editor and politician who was one of the first Black women to own and operate a newspaper in the United States. She followed in the tradition of ‘muckraking’ or reform-minded journalism, publishing the California Eagle in Los Angeles from 1912 until 1951. Later in her life, she became the first Black woman to run for Vice President of the United States.