these shores and places slavery and its legacy at the center of american history journalist nikole hannah-jonesbut also came under criticism few people have spent more time researching, thinking or writing about race in america than nikole hannah-jones. she joins me now nikole, welcome to "meet the press. >> hi. thanks for having me >> let me start with this. describe in your own words what "the 1619 project" is and its mission. >> "the 1619 project" is a book now. it began as a magazine, a special section of "the new york times. what it is, it marks the advent of african slavery in the original 13 colonies so 1619 is the year the first africans were sold into slavery in virginia. what the project argues through a series of essays is very little about american life today has been left untouched by the legacy of slavery and the anti blackness that developed in order to justify it. so it is trying to place slavery as an institution which is one of the oldest institutions in america really at the center of the story that we tell ourselves about our country and to explain so much about american lif

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. >> is my great pleasure to welcome nikole hannah-jones. to ask >>> my great pleasure to welcome nikole hannah-jones, professor nikole hannah-jones, to after words to discuss the book version of the path-breaking eye opening, inspiring, challenging, for some exasperating, always controversial and multi prize-winning 1619 project which you organized and brought to fruition at the "new york times" in august 2019 and which is tu out virtually any day. i think a week or so. >> november 16th. >> november 16th. so i'm very much looking forward to our conversation. let's begin by back pedaling. you offer readers in the preface of the book an excellent overview of both the genesis of the 1619 project and what the book hopes to accomplish. but i wondered if we might start by discussing your expectations of the responses as you move toward publication two years ago and then what has surprised you most about them. i'm sure you have been asked this many times. but i also think our viewers would be interested in hearing. >> sure. one, thanks for being in

since the 1619 project was first released the brains behind it pulitzer prize winning author nikole hannah-jonesas become something of a bogey man for the american right enduring relentless attacks and smears and abuse so i am delighted to have the woman herself nikole hannah-jones on the program tonight. her new book is called "the 1619 project a new origin story" an expansion of her groundbreaking work that first appeared in the times and is now available as a picture book for kids called "the 1619 project born on the water." thanks so much for joining me tonight. i've been waiting to have this conversation with you. let me just begin. can i ask you what i recently asked congresswoman ilhan omar when she came on the show because i feel you and her are enduring a similar set of attacks based on your race and gender. how are you coping with this all with the relentless focus on you from the right? how are you? >> well, one, thank you for asking that and for your persistance. i am glad we could finally make it work. your show is so important and your voice right now is just critical. you know, i'

joining me from new york, nikole hannah-jones. she is a pulitzer prize winning staff writer for "the new york times" magazine and the creator of the 1619 project. thank you so much, nikole, for being here. you of course write in the preface of your book the first time you came across the date 1619, talk about what the significance of that date should be for this country and what it says about what kind of country we are but also what kind of country we could be. nikole: yamiche, thanks for having me on. and before i get into that, i just have to correct something from the last panel if you don't mind. yamiche: yeah, go ahead. this is why you're on, of course. nikole: so respectfully, when jake sherman of punch bowl said -- asked the question will we ever have free and fair elections again, i just think we have to push back on that narrative. that we've only had a resemblance of free and fair elections since 1965. until 1965, with the voting rights act, we had an entire region of the country where millions of americans had their vo

guest is the pulitzer award-winning journalig and creator of the landmark 1619 project they nikole hannah-jonesk about her new book on america's legacy of slavery and impact on society today. nikole hannah-jones, welcome back to it the daily show. >> thank you so much for having me back. >> a lot is happened in your life since the last time we spoarks you have won a pulitzer prize. and you have also imon on to become one of i would say the most polarizing lightning rods in the country because of this work, the 1619 project. which has become for many conservatives the tool that they use to scare people into voting for them or changing how things are taught in school. and for many liberals has become a tool that people say need it to be used to talk about what is happening in society today. how do you feel about how people have received the project? >> i think how the project has been received has exceeded everything i could have imagined in wayses good and bad. i certainly wouldn't have expected two years later that so many americans would be using 1619 as part of the national lexicon, that it w

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. >> now on "after words" pulitzer prize-winning journalist nikole hannah-jones. she looks at american history, slavery in present-day america and is interviewed by new york university history professor and officerstephen hahn . "after words" is a program with relevant guests host interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work . >> is my great pleasure to welcome nikole hannah-jones. to ask "after words" did to discuss the book version of thepathbreaking eye-opening inspiring , challenging for some exasperating, always controversial and multi-prize-winning "the 1619 project: a new origin story" which you organized and brought to fruition at the new york times in august 2019 and is due out virtually any day. i think within a week or so. november 16. so i'm very much looking forward to our conversation. let's begin by backpedaling a little bit. you offer readers in the preface of the book really an excellent overview of the genesis of the project and what the book hopes to accomplish but i wondered if we might start by discussing your expectation of the

plus nikole hannah-jones, the creator of the 1619 project, discusses the consequences of slavery in americane and politics. next.

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. >> now on "after words" pulitzer prize-winning journalist nikole hannah-jones.she looks at american history, slavery in present-day america and is interviewed by new york university history professor and officerstephen hahn . "after words" is a program with relevant guests host interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work . >> is my great pleasure to welcome nikole hannah-jones. to ask "after words" did to discuss the book version of thepathbreaking eye-opening inspiring , challenging for some exasperating, always controversial and multi-prize-winning "the 1619 project: a new origin story" which you organized and brought to fruition at the new york times in august 2019 and is due out virtually any day. i think within a week or so. november 16. so i'm very much looking forward to our conversation

after words," creator of the 619 project -- 1619 project, pulitzer prize-winning journalist nikole hannah-jones. she looks at american history, slavery. she's interviewed by professor and author stephen han. "after words" is a weekly program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. .. inspiring, challenging, for some exasperating. always controversy will type prize winning 1619 project which organized and brought to fruition in august 2019. on virtually any day within a week or so. >> november 16. >> november 16 i'm very much looking forward to our conversation. let's begin by backpedaling a little bit. we have the preface of the book, really an excellent overview of the genesis of the 1619 project on what the book hopes to accomplish it. wonder if we might start by discussing your expectations of the responses as you move toward publication two years ago. and then what has surprised you most about them? i'm sure you have been asked this many times. i also think you'd be interested in hearing. >> thank you for the conversation with me. it is been tw

. >> is my great pleasure to welcome nikole hannah-jones. to ask "after words" did to discuss the book version of thepathbreaking eye-opening inspiring , challenging for some exasperating, always controversial and multi-prize-winning "the 1619 project: a new origin story" which you organized and brought to fruition at the new york times in august 2019 and is due out virtually any day. i think within a week or so. november 16. so i'm very much looking forward to our conversation. let's begin by backpedaling a little bit. you offer readers in the preface of the book really an excellent overview of the genesis of the project and what the book hopes to accomplish but i wondered if we might start by discussing your expectation of the responses as you move towards publication two years ago and then what has surprised you most about them. i'm sure you've been at this many times but i also think our viewers would be interested in hearing. >> thanks for being in conversation with me. it's been two years since the first project published and i'm excit

. >> i want to play this from writer and thinker, nikole hannah-jones.a listen. >> we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions. we are seeing a backlash. we are seeing efforts to subvert democracy. to make it harder for black people, in particular, but people of color in general to vote. i think that we are in a very frightening time. eugene, are you equally frightened? >> i am very worried. frightened, look, you have to fight back. there are a lot of people in this country who are very concerned about the fact that, for example, one of our two major parties is no longer so sure about the whole democracy thing. it is just no longer 100 percent something that they are committed to. it is exploring ways to get around it. that is alarming. and we should be alarmed about it. but we have to call it out. we have to denounce. it we have to fight against it in every way possible. i think the first thing is that this is something congress has to do. we have to secure the way the

read nikole hannah-jones. read bell hooks. read people who can inform you. james baldwin.owerful articulation of the politics of grief that have besieged black people, the traumas we have endured, but the overcoming power of love to remake american society. without black forgiveness, america wouldn't be what it is today. >> ooh. that is for damn sure. real quickly, professor dyson, what role does washington have to play, lawmakers up the street here, have to play in this conversation that we're having? >> well, it is extremely important. first of all, the bitter bickering, the futile feuding, and the nastiness and the resistance to trying to engage the other. now, i'm not pretending one side is not more responsible than the other for what we see now. the malaise we are confronting is mostly all made up of those on the right who refuse to examine themselves through self-reflection and decency and humility. what the politicians need to do is practice some of the religious discourse they are constantly piping in american media and understand the politics of humility and the g

and later, creator of the 1619 project and pulitzer prize winning journalist nikole hannah-jones looks at american history, slavery, and present-day america. find a complete schedule at booktv.org or consult your program guide. now here is author janine di giovanni. >> senior fellow janine di giovanni has been with us since 2018. she's a columnist on foreign policy, an award winning author and journalist. she has dedicated her life to courageous work in war zones, in conflict, in humanitarian crises around the world. she has reported extensively on the front line as a firsthand witness from the middle east, the balkans, across africa, and from south, southeast, and central asia. and we're so thankful to have here at jackson, teaching classes that draw upon these incredible experiences. she was a recipient of the prestigious guggenheim fellowship which enabled her to travel and report extensively from gaza, iraq, syria, and egypt for "the vanishing." and the book really is an intimate portrait of her own faith journey as a conflict reporter for more than 35 years as well as the heartbre

at 10:00 p.m., on after words, 1619 project creator and pulitzer prize winner journalist nikole hannah-jones looks at american history, slavery, and its legacy in present-day america. she's interviewed by new york university history professor steven hahn. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at booktv.org. >> at least six presidents recorded conversations while in office. hear many of those conversations on c-span's new podcast, presidential recordings. >> season one focuses on the presidency of lyndon johnson. you'll hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the 1964 presidential campaign, the gulf of tonkin incident, the march on selma, and the war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly, johnson's secretaries knew because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. in fact, they were the ones who made sure that the conversations were taped, as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office and theirs. >> you'll also hear some blunt talk. >> yes, sir.

and third, the absolute gal, the chutzpah of nikole hannah-jones who is offering a education curriculumpublished a book on american history, but we are just supposed to take her word for what american history has been and it has been shown by professionals historians to be a complete load of bunk. the idea parents should stay out of after the complete failures of system and people like nikole hannah-jones who are claiming they are experts when they're really not, so infuriating. i cannot say. ashley: i'm so glad we got you fired up this morning, naomi. as always -- >> have to calm down. ashley: thank you so much. now this, a harvard professor was just convicted of taking payments from china. lauren, what is going on here? lauren: okay. so the former chair of harvard's chemistry department, dr. charles lieber, he was paid $50,000 a month by china's communist party to collaborate with them, help them get this comprehensive, penetration of u.s. talent, intelligence and technology so they can beef up their position as a world power. professor lieber was convicted of not disclosing that rela

nikole hannah-jones made the following comments in an interview with the a.p.ng she doesn't understand why parents should have a say in their kids' education. if she can't understand the role of parents and education then should she have a say on whether her 1619 project should get taught in school? >> well that's a great question. the thing is that it's actually her version of the country that does not exist and that is completely fictional. i'm an immigrant to this country and know what america is all about. i celebrate this country and blessed to be here and my kids understand that. the country nikole hannah-jones pretends we have this awful place that never has any positive things come out of it is the fictional country. she is right in a way we don't learn enough history. learning her fiction is not how we solve that. we need more american history and more world history in the classroom and so while she is correct about that it won't be her leading the way on it. >> julie: okay, carol markowitz, thank you very much. happy new year. >> trace: fox news alert

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. >> is my great pleasure to welcome nikole hannah-jones.to ask "after words" did to discuss the book version of thepathbreaking eye-opening inspiring , challenging for some exasperating, always controversial and multi-prize-winning "the 1619 project: a new origin story" which you organized and brought to fruition at the new york times in august 2019 and is due out virtually any day. i think within a week or so. november 16. so i'm very much looking forward to our conversation

topping the list reporter and creator of the 1619 project nikole hannah-jones and her look at americanistory, slavery and its legacy in southern day america. followed by the dawn of everything archaeologist in the late anthropologist critical look at the development of human society. after that he suggests we should work with rather than shape the land we live on ingredients week grass. the best-selling nonfiction books is joshua mcfadden's cookbook, greens for every season in musician the storyteller. some of these authors appeared on booktv and you can watch the programs anytime a booktv.org. >> it's an honor to welcome everybody to the 72nd national book award. i'm coming in life from the random house building. shout out, they have wi-fi that won't quit. . . the national basketball association. i am just saying, that impression would have gotten me on saturday night live. i am excited we are all gathered here on one of the biggest nights to celebrate one of the biggest awards and brightest most game changing talent in the industry. a host last nominee, i know all about that. the pro

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. >> is my great pleasure to welcome nikole hannah-jones.to ask "after words" did to discuss the book version of thepathbreaking eye-opening inspiring , challenging for some exasperating, always controversial and multi-prize-winning "the 1619 project: a new origin story"

so if you want your children taught creative fiction, then trust nikole hannah-jones and those peopleessor at a university. she just said it herself. she is not a professional educator. she is a journalist. and there is nothing wrong with being a journalist. some of my best friends are journalists but the ones that i know that are journalists know that they are journalists and not professional educators. and nikole just admitted that she knows. will: i love the big smile on your face when you said there is nothing wrong with being a journalist. you couldn't smile bigger and you couldn't be nicer as you say exactly that dr. swain, it's fascinating. i think underlying this is who actually in essence owns our children, quote unquote experts or parents. that's the key to this. always good to talk to you and have you put into perspective with a smile on your face, dr. swain. >> thank you. >> all right. let's go over to kayleigh mcenany who has a few additional headlines for us. kayleigh: great interview, will. nothing wrong with journalists but we need good journalists. now on to headlines

and most recently, nikole hannah-jones' blockbuster 1619 project for "the new york times" which, as i'm sure you know, is the target of republican legislators and right-wing culture warriors. and settling on this capacious theme, our idea -- the directors, myself, frank and ty jones -- our idea is to use it to engage in questions about the meaning of enslavement as a central theme and force in american history and life from the 1850s to the present. so in that sense, it's openly and sort of definitely a history of the present. but far from dictating any position, we think of it as a way to pose a series of questions with the hope of opening up a conversation across disciplines and specialization. what does the idea of afterlife mean at the conception of historical time? one that spans and potentially collapses the considerable instance from the 17th century or even the 19th century to the present. what does it mean for an understanding of emancipation as a meaningful break in historical times. we're also interested in thinking about whether there are differences between the humanistic d

then at 10:00 p.m., on after words, 1619 project creator and pulitzer prize winner journalist nikole hannah-jones looks at american history, slavery, and its legacy in present day america. she's interviewed by new york university history professor steven hahn. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at booktv.org. >>> representatives peter meijer and abigail spanberger talk about their records to recall the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force, with the atlantic council.

topping the list reporter and creator of the 1619 project nikole hannah-jones and her look at americantory, slavery and its legacy in southern day america. followed by the dawn of everything archaeologist in the late anthropologist critical look at the development of human society. after that he suggests we should work with rather than shape the land we live on ingredients week grass. the best-selling nonfiction books is j