To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States, Hannah-Jones created an extensive project published in 2019 by The New York Times Magazine that excavated 1619-the year the first enslaved Africans landed on the shores of Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia, and were sold to colonists. Close ties to her community contributed to a thirst to share deeper knowledge of the American past and present, which places the enslavement of Africans at the center of the American story. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. As an 11-year-old, she wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper about a presidential primary. Nikole Hannah-Jones grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, where much of her family still lives.
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