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Nikole Hannah-Jones Discusses Democracy and The 1619 Project. “If democracy is government with consent of the governed, then [the United States wasn’t] a democracy at our founding … So what do we call a democracy?” asked Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. On November 20, 2022, Hannah-Jones discussed the current state of American democracy and civil rights with Howard University constitutional law professor Lisa Crooms-Robinson through the lens of The 1619 Project, the award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. The event was livestreamed for remote viewing. The year 1619 marked the arrival of the first enslaved Africans who were forcibly brought to the American colonies, beginning centuries of slavery that irrevocably impacted the future nation. “If you don’t understand that history, then you can’t understand where we’re at right now, and you certainly can’t figh

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