Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Hannah-Jones and 1619, Inc.

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The New York Times’s 1619 Project is meant to be all about details that, it alleges, were ‘conveniently left out’ of America’s ‘founding mythology’. But should its Pulitzer-winning curator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, worry more about the details she’s been slipping in? And what’s the relationship between the Times’s 1619 Project and 1619 Enterprises, a company for whom Hannah-Jones’s techie partner, Faraji has supposedly worked? When she's not explaining how destroying property isn't violence on national television or circulating conspiracy theories about fireworks, Hannah-Jones is giving puff interviews, like this one to Glamour in May, in which she endorsed some of her favorite products.

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The truth about the fireworks

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At least it’s not the Russians this time. If you’ve heard a lot of fireworks in your neighborhood recently, you’re not alone. People in all five boroughs of New York City report hearing and seeing them more this year than ever before. I grew up in Brooklyn. Somewhere around early June, a kid on your block would tell you he had access to M-80s or some bottle rockets. Someone always had an uncle in Pennsylvania who was going to hook them up. As a kid I always pictured Pennsylvania as a wonderland of explosions and lights. The older kids had the better stuff, the kind that exploded high in the air. If you watched them long enough, you could always see a minor injury which was usually more entertaining than the firecrackers.

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