A live Conversation With Pulitzer Prize-Winning Creator of The 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones
July 7, 2020 / 2:00PM-3:00PM ET
Join Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer prize-winning creator of The 1619 Project, and Marla Newman, NLIHC board chair, for a conversation on how our housing and homelessness response to COVID-19 must center racial equity and address systemic inequities and discrimination. #RacialEquityandCOVID
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About Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones covers racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and has spent years chronicling the way official policy has created—and maintains—racial segregation in housing and schools. Her deeply personal reports on the black experience in America offer a compelling case for greater equity. Hannah-Jones is the creator and lead writer of the New York Times’ major multimedia initiative, “The 1619 Project.” Named for the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in America, the project features an ongoing series of essays and art on the relationship between slavery and everything from social infrastructure and segregation, to music and sugar—all by Black American authors, activists, journalists and more. Hannah-Jones wrote the project’s introductory essay, which ran under the powerful headline, “Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True.” The essay earned her a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. For more information, go to: https://www.thelavinagency.com/speakers/nikole-hannah-jones
About Marla Newman
Marla Newman is the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) board chair with over 20 years of housing and community development experience. She is the Community Development Director for the City of Winston-Salem, NC and is responsible for the City’s Code Enforcement, Rehab and First-Time Homebuyer Lending, and Community Planning, Real Estate Development and Public Service grant programs, financed with both federal (HOME and CDBG) and local (Housing Assistance Finance Funds and General Obligation Bonds) funding.Prior to her current position at the City of Winston-Salem, she served as executive director of the Louisiana Housing Alliance, an NLIHC state partner. Marla is also the owner of Blueprints Consulting, an urban planning and community development firm, and a faculty member of NeighborWorks® America.