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Morehouse College is teaming up with the Ida B. Wells Society to increase the representation of reporters of color in investigative journalism.

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.'

Education

The course will be open to all students and could have a significant impact in opening up the minds of young and talented Black individuals and help shape future leaders.

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Howard University received a $2 million endowment to digitize its Black Press Archive.

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MasterClass will make its ‘Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love’ course—led by intellectuals like Angela Davis, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Cornel West—free for streaming during Black History Month.

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.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

Coverage that picks a part statements to inflame false controversy only furthers misinformation.

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

Cornel West made his disdain for Harvard University crystal clear with no uncertain terms in a public letter of resignation that condemned the Ivy League school for being in the "shadow of Jim Crow."

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.