The El Centro College Common Book Program welcomes Nikole Hannah-Jones – Writer for The New York Times Magazine and recent recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant for her work “reshaping national conversations around education reform” on
April 24.
11 a.m. – Keynote: “Education and Equity: Creating Access and Tearing Down Boundaries to Opportunity and Education”
2 p.m. – Informal Question and Answer Session/Meet and Greet
Join us for these exciting events featuring one of today's leading voices on race and education in America. Both events will take place in the
Performance Hall, and are open to the El Centro College community.
Nikole Hannah-Jones covers racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and has spent years chronicling the way official policy has created—and maintains—racial segregation in housing and schools. Her deeply personal reports on the black experience in America offer a compelling case for greater equity. She has written extensively on the history of racism, school desegregation, and the disarray of hundreds of desegregation orders, as well as the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act.
Selected celebrated works from Nikole Hannah-Jones:
For more information, contact Samantha Schulze at 214-860-2092 or
sschulze@dcccd.edu.