ray suarez. announcer: coming up, the founder of "the new york times" 1619 project, nikole hannah-jones.lack americans were fighting in wars to democratize other countries and then coming home and facing brutal suppression of their own democratic rights. announcer: and later, meet the man who came to this country as a child, and now, 40 years later, is still living undocumented in the only country he h soledad: i want to read you a passage of an essay printed in the "new york times magazine," a story of a young black girl growing up on the black side of an iowa town. "at the edge of our lawn, high on an aluminum pole, soared the flag, which my dad would replace as soon as it showed the slightest tatter." that little girl grew up to be a pulitzer prize winning journalist, writing about america's racial divide and issues of racial justice, in the process creating the acclaimed "new york times" 1619 project. i'm talking about nikole hannah-jones. you write about your dad flying that flag, and you talk about the duality, right, that he's in mississippi, which has this track record of terribl