TheAPInterview: 'This year, to me, is just reflective of what I've always understood about this country. And that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash,' journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says.
in July that she’d take her talents to a historically Black university — and is closing it as a national best-selling author.
“The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,” and “Born on the Water,” a picture storybook collaboration with co-writer Renée Watson and illustrator Nikkolas Smith, each have spent consecutive weeks atop the Times bestseller list since their Nov. 16 release. A TV documentary on the work is due out later in 2022.
“I think that we are in a very frightening time,” she said in the interview at AP’s New York City headquarters. HANNAH-JONES: This year, to me, is just reflective of what I’ve always understood about this country. And that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash. That we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.
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