The Color of Education

Nikole Hannah-Jones has spent years chronicling the way official policy has created-and maintains-racial segregation in housing and schools. Throughout her time at New York Times Magazine, her deeply personal reports on the black experience in America have offered a compelling case for addressing racial injustice and equity.
She was named a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow (one of only 24 people chosen, globally) for "reshaping national conversations around education reform" and for her reporting on racial re-segregation in our schools.
This is her latest honor in a growing list of notable accolades including a Peabody, a Polk Award, and, in 2017, a National Magazine Award for her story on choosing a school for her daughter in a segregated city.
She is currently writing a book on school segregation called The Problem We All Live With, to be published on the One World imprint of Penguin/Random House.
Cosponsored by Duke Policy Bridge, the Cook Center for Social Equity, and the Public School Forum of NC, "An Evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones" is the inaugural event of their upcoming Color of Education annual summit, a statewide convening on race and education in North Carolina. In 2019 and beyond, "Color of Education" (#ColorofEducation) will evolve into a yearly, day-long summit of workshops and conversations that bring together educators, policymakers, national experts and other key stakeholders focused on achieving racial equity in education.
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[@dianneedwards4978]

This lady has given us a GIFT, a powerful gift...we need to unwrap it and use it to its greatest potential. Thank you

[@MrDdub619]

Unfortunately, you people of the same color fighting against her. Some that are leaders of religious groups.

[@Forgoneconclusion.]

@@MrDdub619 Isn't there always a counter group,point,force in any movement or group?

[@kevinodom2918]

🤢🤮

[@kevinodom2918]

@@MrDdub619 same color? You have to agree with someone that has same color of skin as you? That sounds stupid.

[@barbarathompson6205]

I am so glad that Nicole hanna jones has ARRIVED ON THE SCENE!!! She is such a blessing!!!!

[@Revel136]

Amen ❤❤❤ she's awesome

[@markallen9600]

A light of Truth in the darkness

[@g6mogulthepeoplesmogul]

Such an eye opener, excellent ❤

[@eugenes496]

Living life from the perspective of where you are can be challenging especially if where you are is problematic. Making lop sided outcomes out of lop sided advantages becomes even more challenging when you consider the momentum is weighted toward the status quo. What I mean by lopsided is changing the ratio of success to failure to define success as the significant number. It is possible. But that possibility is rooted in a fundamental pragmatic change and the way we operate from the perspective of the paradigm that underlines our motivational approach to change.

[@nasa_sidthesciencekid3105]

Thank you Nikole Hannah-Jones for your Awesome Words of Truth

[@beagoodie8322]

Inspired🙏

[@nasa_sidthesciencekid3105]

All children are worthy

[@lovingatlanta]

👍Fantastic talk. Nikole Hannah-Jones is phenomenal & amazing! I’m so proud of her. I wish Maya Angelou was still alive to weigh in on this topic about UNC and tenure. Shame on UNC for being so racist and prejudice! They are disgusting! This is 2021 a whole new millennium and this mess needs to end! Her credentials speak loud and clear. To think that she is less than stellar and not deserving of the same compensation package and tenure of her white counterparts/colleagues because of her ethnicity and gender is antiquated, insulting and utterly absurd! 😡

[@theresabell2492]

Thank u for sharing finally real talk about education.

[@RawJewel]

Public schools that have integrated have found ways to segregate the children within those schools.

[@clevelandstokes7402]

Awesome Thanks for all you do Mrs Jones.is their a website and a fund to raise money and support for the 1619 project. Thamk you God bless

[@shamusibalogun364]

This, regal, powerful, sister is PREACHING!! You better go on with yo bad self!!

[@orwellknew3408]

Oh my God!!!!!!!!......... Pennywise is back

[@muralikrishnareddy5373]

Nicole’s presentation is so powerful. She presents history in poignant terms. The point we all need to ponder and reflect is as to why good and god loving people accept cruelty and inhuman behaviour as normal. Nicole is a great Story Teller. Kudos to her.

[@skipfluck4299]

Unfortunately it has been proven she made it up.

[@damonholton9694]

Yep!! Big ol WHOPPER OF A LIE

[@siriuslyspeaking9720]

Of course significant numbers of Black people value education. The question is, do those among us who would benefit the most from an education, value it or value it enough, to make it a priority, above other things in their lives? There is no question about all the inherent disadvantages we have, as a result of enslavement of our forebears. Considering our lack of power to remove or stop those disadvantages/obstacles, what are we to do? How are we to approach our education, in the ways that we have control over it? Hannah-Jones equates Black people's attitude toward education today, with attitudes during post enslavement, to dispel the notion that Black people don't value education. She mentioned the risk that the enslaved took, to get an education. The point she was addressing had nothing to do with Black people's in general attitude, in the past, but the attitude of some particular Black people, in recent times .In fact I have never heard the criticism of Black people's attitude toward education stated the way she presented it - as us being "the only people in the history of the world", who don't value it. When this criticism is made, it is usually done so addressing, or associating it with the culture of poverty, which effects all people living in "poverty". It very well could have been stated that way by someone somewhere, but I doubt that is the way it is widely presented. What are the risk involved in getting an education today? They certainly are not equal to those of long ago, or of a more recent past.

[@kevinodom2918]

Uh oh, you gonna get in trouble. You're not allowed to bring up things like you mentioned. Not starting with the absolute truth no matter who difficult tells me this is nothing new and unfortunately not going to change anything for the people who need it most.

[@aaaaaauyt]

she is brave！

[@pattyshobbyworld2851]

Wow..Just amazed for this women.. Is education worthy of integration..our black children have proven they are highly capable even at the most oppressed and denied educational circumstances.. and this lady is proof... just a thought... We can strive for excellence on our own terms...

[@kevinodom2918]

Nicole hannah jones has succeeded through hard work/effort. This is no magic pill, if can't make learning/succeeding a part of our culture like every other successful group in America then nothing changes. Sorry

[@RJ.MacReady]

Isn't that what Adam & Eve thought too? They can do it there way. Look how's that's going for you. Only The Holy Spirit's way is the right way.

[@demisialockett8437]

AAMAAN AMEEN AMEN AMÉN OHIOIANS SHALOAM CUBAN'S.

[@shawtfinga1078]

Nicole hanna Jones is the daughter of mother Africa .traveling the road of her descendant.a long time coming

[@Rayburn58]

Then why doesn't she talk about africa's roll in slavery? Why doesn't she talk about the history of all slavery around the world. Why doesn't she talk about the slavery that exists today in africa orchestrated by africans? Why doesn't she talk about the massive slavery throughout africa throughout history? She is the dishonest one, she is the racist that only wants to talk negatively about white people while ignoring all the other history of slavery from the past and even today. Any educated person understands she is a liar and a fraud.

[@johngeorge4723]

THERE WAS NEVER AN OFFICIAL POLICY WHEN U MOVED ENOUGH

[@johngeorge4723]

whyb try all integration in a few years balance of integraion may well be 50 percent thenwhat also look at world what is the racial balance

[@hzwg3542]

I hope Ms Hannah-Jones can focus her talk to the poorly performed kids' parents and talk to them frankly: 1) Do you work with your kids on their homework? 2) Do you check if your kids do what teachers asked? 3) Do you make sure your kids read the expensive textbooks? 4) Do your kids prepare for the tests if academic is valued as one of the common goods? There is no point for equity in education if equal efforts are not the starting point.

[@goddess2859]

Hmmm…. Let’s actually think about this post you wrote and ask DO these parents have the time after working multiple jobs to make a livable wage because of disparities that persist from structural, institutional, and systemic racism? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying the answer is more nuanced than the parents not doing enough

[@Rayburn58]

@@goddess2859 Explain how there is systemic racism? What part of the system is racist?

[@erikaalexander3751]

NHJ is a marvelous American dynamo! Here’s to her future success, health and safety. Xo

[@lloydparks450]

Before the Caucasian race came into being, Black Africans had built great civilization lasting millenniums. I matriculated at Howard University School of Law. In my humble opinion, Howard University School of Law has produced better trained lawyers than Yale and Harvard. I was 4 August 1953 in Lincoln County in the state of Arkansas, and I attended the colored school. The colored school and the white school integrated when I entered 9th grade. I did poorly academically under white teachers, because they hated teaching African American students. In my opinion, integration has been the Achilles' heel for African American children.

[@johngeorge4723]

she didnt get tenure might have to wait at least 4 years then get it because of --------------

[@kevinodom2918]

Due to lies.

[@janetdesmith8125]

I moved to the city because I believed in diversity. It was astounding how wasteful public school students and teachers were. The catholic school would reuse papers that on one would be an old letter and reuse the blank side for the current lesson. It's not about money. It's about attitude.

[@Niayolonda777]

Yt/

[@stephenmcgraw9466]

The white supremacist are threaten by the 1619 Project. Why? The white supremacist do not want the truth of the ugly parts of America's history taught to their children. Why? Because the white supremacist children will discover that their descendants were slavers, rapist, and killers. That each and every race they came into contact with the white always subjugate and attempt to dominate by force. There was no peaceful co - existence by these white colonizers. By denying the white supremacist racist history. This helps perpetuates racism. Nelson Mandela said. A racist is not born. Their made. These white supremacist always deny the negative parts of their history. These white supremacist are currently denying the insurrection of 01/06/2001. The truth will set you free. This is why the white supremacist are so threaten by the 1619 Project. From a black American.

[@Rayburn58]

From an uneducated black American.....If you want to talk about slavery, don't ignore the existence of slavery throughout history all over the world. This includes the slavery in Africa perpetrated by Africans on their own people as well as white people. It was the Africans that sold their own to slavery to the Europeans. Talk about the slavery that exists today in Africa by African's. bookmarked currently has enslaved thousands of young black girls as sex slaves. Uneducated people like you and this dumb lady want to ignore this. You and her only care about the slavery caused by white people and ignore the massive slavery that has and does exist perpetrated by non-whites because you and her are racist. Stop trying to be a victim and move on with the incredible opprotunity you have as an American instead of blaming others and making excuses for your lack of success.

[@FreeMarketFan49_]

Same tiered speech she’s given a 100 times.

[@michaelhiggins2562]

Want to make a difference for black children? Adopt vouchers and charter schools. Stop allowing teacher unions to make education in America substandard to the rest of the world. The unions are about their own power and wealth --- not about children.

[@johnfox3708]

Critical crap is what it is ,can't you just feel her hate

[@nanettematthews2264]

The hate you feel is your own...

[@johngeorge4723]

PLZ BET A REAL JOB AND DONT USE AFFIRMITIVE ACTION DOM IT ON UR PAST RECORDS

[@SalimSivaad]

Being a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the New York Times is about as real a job as it gets. What have you done with your life except be mediocre?

[@Richard-rk7tg]

Learn to spell and write

[@johngeorge4723]

ENOUGH OF THIS DISCUSSION EVERY DAY 10 COLORS ENOUGH

[@michaelhiggins2562]

How horrible would the world be if we had "not" forgiven the Germans, Italians, and Japanese for causing 50,000,000 deaths just 75 years ago. Why can't we apply that same forgiveness to slavery?

[@siriuslyspeaking9720]

It is not so much about forgiving slavery, as it is making up for the social and economic disparities and disadvantages, slavery and the aftermath of the reconstruction, that was Jim crow, etc. created.

[@moodrahkamite818]

THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT SLAVERY, INEQUALITY, RACISM... Ideology TRUMPS all of the aforementioned. SJW's just want to be the oppressor

[@sharona.bembery7338]

“Forgive “ slavery ? Hell no!

[@kevinodom2918]

Because it pays to well.

[@SalimSivaad]

It’s easy to “forgive” someone when they actually *REPENT* for their past wrongs (in other words, say “I’m sorry” and make it right). America has never repented for white supremacy…it continues to this very day. If Germany, Japan and Italy were still invading countries, no one would have forgiven them either.

[@jefffetzer8201]

Equity offensive . I scored highest on the test to be a state police officer. . The job still was not open to someone 5 ft 2 . It was open to lower scoring blacks.That is to say the requirements were different based on race.

[@SalimSivaad]

LOL! Because you’d get your little ass beat on the street. 5’2” with a Napoleon complex…you’d be scared and end up shooting some unarmed Black guy. I’m glad you got rejected.

[@jefffetzer8201]

@@SalimSivaad Google Richard Flaherty

[@SalimSivaad]

@@jefffetzer8201 Why’d you delete your last comment, little man?

[@jefffetzer8201]

@@SalimSivaad thumbs have a mind of their own

[@SalimSivaad]

@@jefffetzer8201 Don’t little men have little thumbs? Tell the truth: you’re an Oompa Loompa or a member of the Lollipop Guild, huh?

[@johngeorge4723]

ENOUGH OF HER HERE AHE HAS A JOB AND REPEATS EVERYTING FROM THE 60S NOTHING NEW GET A REAL JOB

[@ScooterFXRS]

1619 Project, or How to rewrite history to fit your agenda.

[@skipfluck4299]

This lady invented her own version of history, won an award for it. It has been debunked by Historians, yet she tours around like it’s true. That’s what you call Black privilege in America.

[@lovingatlanta]

🤔Hmmm….Enlighten me. Did what she said happened, not happen? 🤔

[@angelaperry4603]

🙄

[@Bluejacket4life2]

Skip is a liar....white history is a lie

[@womenagainsthuman-traffick4724]

Clearly documents how inhumane the concept of white supremacy has been and still is in the USA.

[@demisialockett8437]

My son could end up homeless because he is bored with the Teacher's he bored 🥱😴 with the rich children always teasing children that do not have as much as them that is another thing all the teacher's are European Americans. My is the state board percentile of advance profeciency and than grade's dropped too average but A little bit above average. Only 33% than 34% and 35% is passing in the whole state of Ohio Lucas county suburbs Springfield township in Holland Ohio USA but this is for the whole state. The test like A SAT FOR COLLEGE FOCUS ON READING, &WRITING MATHEMATICS, AND PROBLEM SOLVING. HE IS ON THE VERGE OF DROPPING OUT IF YOU GO TOO SCHOOL EVERYDAY AND THE OFFICE PEOPLE LOOK ANGRY 😡 THE TEACHER'S ARE ACTING ANGRY 😡 THAN THEY ARE BURNT 🔥 OUT 😩 TIRED. ALMOST EVERY MONTH A young 14, 15 year old is being found dead. A young girl got in A BMW 9 year's old around the corner they dropped her body off all the way in the inner city 6 year's later dead in the back of A city house she is now 15 year's old. Rather it is A boy or girl African American, Americano, Latin, biracial, or multi racial they still have black blood even if it is just 16%🧠 We have too find teacher's that love 💕 to teach but because of COVID it is complicated for every career. 🤲🙏🥰🌹

[@LoveMafae]

no such thing as a light skin black person