1619 Project creator welcomed to Neves-Evans lecture series
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, will speak at Sonoma State April 3 as part of the H. Andréa Neves and Barton Evans Social Justice Lecture Series.
The 1619 Project is now a six-part docuseries streaming on Hulu, and won the Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series in 2024. Hannah-Jones’ “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” is a book-length expansion of the essays presented in The New York Times Magazine in August 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
According to The Times Magazine, The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative that aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the center of our national narrative.
Hannah-Jones is the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting at Morehouse College and founder of the 1619 Freedom School in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, and the Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard University, where she is the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism.
In addition to the Pulitzer, her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, the Knight Award for Public Service, the Peabody Award, two George Polk awards, and the National Magazine Award three times. She is a Society of American Historians Fellow and a member of the Academy of Arts & Sciences.
An endowment made to Sonoma State by SSU Professor Emeritus H. Andréa Neves and her late husband, Barton Evans, supports the series, through which a distinguished speaker is invited each year to give a public lecture on the topic of social justice.
Event details:
The H. Andréa Neves and Barton Evans Social Justice Lecture presents Nikole Hannah-Jones
April 3, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Weill Hall, Green Music Center
Ticket price $30; Box Office
Sonoma State University
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA