The Buffalo Public Schools annual Urban Forum will take place on 2/8/2024 beginning at 8:30am at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. We are pleased to announce that Pulitzer Prize winning creator of the 1619 Project, and staff writer for the New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones will serve as the Keynote Speaker who will be in discussion with Dr. Fatima Morrell, Chief of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Initiatives. The Keynote will be live streamed on the Buffalo Public Schools website.
CLICK HERE for livestream. Please be sure to sign in to your YouTube account with your BPS credentials
Mrs. Hannah-Jones Bio:
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. The book version of The 1619 Project as well as the 1619 Project children's book, Born on the Water, were instant #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her 1619 Project is now a six-part docuseries on Hulu. Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius grant, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and the National Magazine Award three times. She also serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Hannah-Jones is also the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color, and in 2022 she opened the 1619 Freedom School, a free, afterschool literacy program in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. Hannah-Jones holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her Bachelor of Arts in History and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.
We look forward to your participation in this year's Urban Forum!
