Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project
Oprah's Super Soul
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My Father Is an Extremely Intelligent Man Born in Jim Crow Mrs Sippy Who Drove a Bus
"My dad is extremely intelligent man born in jim crow mrs. sippy who you know drove a bus i started making more money than my dad when i was doing work study at Notre Dame," she says. "In seeing that a man who had so much pride in his country to me was treated so disrespectfully i didn't understand why he would exhibit pride in that way but as i talk about it was in reporting for the 1619 project and reading people who were literally born into slavery [who] were saying we're not gonna leave this country our ancestors blood is in this soil." She adds: "It took me 30 years to understand my father and i'm only sad that
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