Tag: The New York Times
Charles M. Blow has a proposition for Black Americans: Reverse the Great Migration
The New York Times opinion columnist moved back to the South with a big idea: What if other Black Americans—a lot of them—did the same? “I am proposing nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black America in the history of the country,” Blow writes in The Devil You Know, his 2021 book outlining the proposal. “Reversing the Great Migration,” as he puts it, could pave the way to “true and lasting political power in the United States.”
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones: “I want everyone to read [the 1619 Project] because it’s the American story”
The 1619 Project, published last summer in the New York Times Magazine, is a groundbreaking look at the modern legacy of slavery. Former Atlanta resident and award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones spoke at Morehouse College last week about the project and its impact.