What Nikole Hannah-Jones has said about School choice

2 quotes · 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 School choice 2 times 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

  • Hannah-Jones said she and her husband stayed at the school because they felt they could not abandon the other children.

    “who are we if like the moment it gets really rough, we give up? Then what do we do it for in the first place?”

    This American Life: 898: An Argument (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 17:50

  • Hannah-Jones admitted she does not know whether she and her husband made the right choice.

    “I couldn't admit to her that, yes, you did bear a cause. And I don't know that we made the right choice”

    This American Life: 898: An Argument (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 56:00

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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