1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Mourns Cop-Killer Who Escaped to Cuba

Given Nikole Hannah-Jones’s status as a celebrity big-foot at the New York Times—winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for her “1619 Project,” winner of a $625,000 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, occupant of the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University backed by “nearly $20 million” from the Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Ford Foundation—you might think that if she discovered a woman wrongfully convicted of murder, she’d marshal the investigative resources necessary to make a thorough case for a presidential pardon, or for legal action to dismiss or overturn the conviction.

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