A Virginia Library is paying Nikole Hannah-Jones more than $35,000 for a speech titled “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story."

According to Hulu’s synopsis, each episode in the docuseries will dive deeper into the essays from the book, 'The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.'

After members of a group that invited Nikole Hannah-Jones to give an MLK Day speech said the "1619 Project" author was dishonoring Dr. King, she gave an address using Martin Luther King Jr.'s own words aimed at conservatives who whitewash MLK's legacy.

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Jones tweeted she was touched by the posts.  

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A children’s book inspired by ‘The 1619 Project’ is slated to hit shelves this fall.

Coalition groups comprised of Black students, alumni and faculty pressed on in their years-long fight to create a more equitable campus for Black students by presenting the university with a list of demands during a Wednesday news conference.

Howard University just added two more notches to its HBCU championship belt with its surprise hires of Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates to be journalism professors at the Cathy Hughes School of Communications.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finally voted to grant tenure to award-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, ending more than a month of controversy following the school's initial reluctance.

As UNC continues to process the national blowback for denying tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Black professor and highly sought chemist declined a position with the university.

A crowd of protesters gathered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Thursday in a solidarity protest over the tenure denial of Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for an essay that paved the way for The 1619 project, a series about Black history that was centered on slavery.