HT Book Club Read – The 1619 Project – Feb. 24
HT Book Club Read – The 1619 Project – Feb. 24
In celebration of Black History Month, during the entire month of February, Huston-Tillotson will host the 4th Annual Campus Book Club, featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones’s The 1619 Project.
The Book Club Read-In will take place February 24th at 5:00pm CST via Zoom Room 983 4547 1385, pw HTBHM22moderated by our very our Dr. Julie E. Hudson, Associate Professor of English and Mr. Hopeton Hay, Diverse Voices Book Review. Listen, share and enjoy a robust discussion around The 1619 Project!
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project, which is the focus of Huston-Tillotson University’s Black History Month 4th Annual Book Club on Feb. 24.
The New York Times’s 1619 Project commemorates the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States by examining slavery’s modern legacy and reframing the way we understand this history and the contributions of black Americans to the nation.
Nikole’s lead essay, “Our Democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true,” was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.
Nikole, who visited the Huston-Tillotson University campus in 2019, also has written extensively about school resegregation across the country and chronicled the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act.
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