Going into her Martin Luther King Jr. holiday speech at the Union League Club this week, “1619 Project” journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones stepped to the podium knowing her words wouldn’t be welcome by at least some club members critical of her project.
Going into her Martin Luther King Jr. holiday speech at the Union League Club this week, “1619 Project” journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones stepped to the podium knowing her words wouldn’t be welcome by at least some club members critical of her famed history project with The New York Times.
The speech came at a time when there is a renewed spotlight on racial issues and grievances across the country, as elected leaders and citizens bicker over topics including voting rights, the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and critical race theory. Masur, who participated in a virtual conversation at Northwestern recently to preview Hannah-Jones’ upcoming speech there next week, pointed to Hannah-Jones’ writing and reporting on education and housing discrimination, before turning to the 1619 Project, as reasons why she is an appropriate person to speak during a King celebration.
Some attendees marveled at how Hannah-Jones pulled it off, subtly changing the word “Negro” to “Black”While King has long been the preeminent figure in American civil rights, his public popularity waned in latter part of the 1960s as he voiced opposition to the Vietnam War and entrenched discriminatory policies against Black people in northern cities such as Chicago, where he famously lived in a Lawndale slum and was pelted with rocks and bottles during marches through white neighborhoods in...
State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago, who attended the speech and took a photo with Hannah-Jones, agreed that the conversation was uncomfortable for some of those in attendance, but called it necessary to “racial healing.”
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