What Nikole Hannah-Jones has said about In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?

1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 26, 2026

Nikole Hannah-Jones, American journalist and New York Times Magazine writer who teaches at Howard University, has been quoted on In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? once in 1 episode of This American Life, most recently on September 26, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • After rereading her old emails, Hannah-Jones said she had suppressed memories of the school's failures in order to live with her choices.

    “I had just pushed a lot of that out of my memory, I think, to be able to live with the choices we were trying to make”

    This American Life: 898: An Argument (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 52:31

Episodes

  • 898: An Argument

    This American Life · Sep 26, 2026 · 1 h 3 min

    Nikole Hannah-Jones revisits her famous essay on choosing a segregated public school for her daughter Najya, who argues with her about that choice a decade later.

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