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Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Country We Have

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What Was Your Pitch to the Project?

This year is the four hundredth anniversary of american slavery. When you took the idea to the folks at the times and were like, this is the project? My pitch was very informal. It was just very conversational. And immediately jake silverstein, the editor in chief of the magazine, said, we should do it,. That's amazing. I'll say that there may have been a different response had i pushed this project under the obama administration. Many people in mainstreet media kind of got into this idea that we had reached the post racio mountain., he says.

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