Nikole Hannah-Jones | 20th Year Anniversary | Busboys and Poets
Date and Time
Sep 21, 2025 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Sep 21, 2025 5:00 pm
14th & V
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join us to discuss The 1619 Project, its origins, and its ongoing impact on how we understand American history, race, and democracy. As debates over history and its interpretation continue—highlighted recently by challenges to exhibitions at the Smithsonian museums and other cultural institutions—this conversation is especially timely in examining how historical narratives shape our present and future.
Guests attending in person will have the opportunity to purchase a variety of books from The 1619 Project series.
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Doors open at 4:15 PM, with our program beginning at 5:00 pm. Please note that this event is in person. Seating is available on a first come-first served basis.
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The 1619 Project began in 2019 as a special project from The New York Times Magazine to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It is led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, along with New York Times editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein and New York Times Magazine editors Ilena Silverman and Caitlin Roper.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University where she is the founding director of the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Her reporting has earned her the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, the Knight Award for Public Service, the Peabody Award, two George Polk awards, the National Magazine Award three times and an Emmy. She is a Society of American Historians Fellow and a member of the Academy of Arts & Sciences.
