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Faraji Hannah-Jones defends public school choice, compares wife to MLK

The husband of 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones rejected criticism over their daughter's struggling education, saying the move was necessary civil-rights work.

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What to know

  • Nikole Hannah-Jones enrolled her daughter in an underperforming Brooklyn public school 10 years ago as an ideological commitment to integration, but the student fell far behind academically and required tutoring after transferring for high school.
  • In a New York Times Magazine essay, Hannah-Jones acknowledged the experiment failed and said she felt she "failed both my values and my child," but her husband Faraji defended the choice as necessary civil-rights work comparable to MLK and Ruby Bridges.
  • The couple's disagreement over the outcome—Nikole expressing regret, Faraji rejecting the label of bad parenting and asserting their daughter will eventually appreciate the sacrifice—highlights a tension between ideology and educational outcomes.

“I was determined not to do what I'd seen so many others do when their values about integration collided with the reality of where to send their own children to school.”

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 1619 Project creator · New York Times Magazine ↗

Nikole Hannah-Jones 1619 Project creator, NY Times staff writerFaraji Hannah-Jones Husband, ACLU IT workerNajya Hannah-Jones Their daughter

Faraji Hannah-Jones defends public school choice, compares wife to MLK
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yesterdaytodaynow · 11:21 PM ET
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    “When history looks back on this, she's going to be one of our civil-rights leaders. It requires risk. Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, Ruby Bridges — it all required them to be in it.”
    — Faraji Hannah-Jones
    1. 1 outlet Husband of 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones claims she belongs next to MLK as civil-rights icon — then bizarrely appears to contradict her

      first by NY Post, 2d ago

  2. background

    Nikole Hannah-Jones publishes essay admitting the school experiment failed — Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Hannah-Jones acknowledged the decision had been a failure, stating she felt she "failed both my values and my child" and that her daughter "got cheated" by the choice. She also wrote that the experience "exposed the fallacy that caring families are more important than competent teachers."

  3. background

    Hannah-Joneses enroll daughter in P.S. 307, an underperforming Brooklyn school — Nikole Hannah-Jones and her husband Faraji, despite their success and privilege, decided to enroll their daughter Najya in a struggling public school rather than use their connections to access better options, framing the choice as aligned with integration values.

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