Nikole Hannah-Jones

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Ryan Mac |Nikole Hannah-Jones

On Feb. 7, as rumors spread through the ranks of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Elon Musk's team had entered their building, federal workers took out their phones. On high alert, they filmed unidentified young men from the team known as the Department of Government Efficiency being escorted by security through the glass doors of their downtown Washington headquarters. They shouted greetings from afar and tried to snap photos of their faces.

Nov 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Nikole Hannah-Jones

With a closely contested election just days away, much attention has been paid in recent weeks to whether enough Black men are willing to vote for a Black woman for president. The argument goes that Black men may be the obstacle to Kamala Harris's defeating Donald Trump - and becoming the first female president.

Aug 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Nikole Hannah-Jones

When I was a child, my dad sat my older sister and me down in our living room and explained to us the rules of race in America. A Black man born into a Mississippi where Black boys could be lynched for merely standing too close to a white woman, he met my white mom in 1972. That was just a few years after the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia finally struck down 300 years' worth of laws prohibiting people who descended from slavery from marrying people whose ancestors had enslaved them.

Dec 20, 2023 | threadreaderapp.com | Nikole Hannah-Jones

Mar 13I began working on this essay even before the affirmative action ruling came down. It is a warning. We are in the midst of a radical abandonment of the compact forged by the CRM that cynically coopts the ideal of colorblindness to attack racial justice.

May 14, 2023 | threadreaderapp.com | Nikole Hannah-Jones