She wears a top and belt (stylist’s own) with jewelry by ALEXIS BITTAR.
1619
- Words Sala Elise Patterson
- Photos Oyè Diran
- Styling Shola Shodipo
In proposing a new founding date for the United States, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones challenged Americans to confront their national narrative.
- Words Sala Elise Patterson
- Photos Oyè Diran
- Styling Shola Shodipo
- Hair Monaé Everett
- Makeup Melissa Drouillard
Hannah-Jones wears a dress by NAKED WARDROBE, jewelry by ALEXIS BITTAR and shoes by SCHUTZ.
On July 23, 2020, Senator Tom Cotton introduced an act into Congress that sought to prohibit the use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project in schools. The curriculum was based on a set of essays that had run in The New York Times Magazine in August 2019, on the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in America. The project argued that the country’s origins lay not in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, but rather with the introduction of enslaved Africans into the British North American colonies in 1619. And that in predating America’s birth story, we arrive at a more accurate history of the country, where slavery, racism and segregation play a central role—not equality, democracy and freedom.
