On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
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3 things Nikole Hannah-Jones said, verbatim, on September 24, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“When it comes to the choices my husband and I have made about public education, these days I feel that I failed both my values and my child.”
on whether her school choices for her own child conflicted with her integration advocacy
Atlanta Black Star Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Questions If She Hurt Her Child While Lobbying for Other Black Children As She Faces Fallout for Story ›
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“I have no doubt my parents' decision to pull me out of my segregated neighborhood school made the possibility of my getting from there to here—staff writer for The New York Times Magazine—more likely”
on her own escape from a segregated school shaping her career success
Reason Magazine Nikole Hannah-Jones' Experiment Accidentally Undercuts Her Case Against School Choice ›
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“felt an obligation to make educational decisions based on the collective good and not just our individual advantage”
on choosing her daughter's school based on collective good over individual advantage
The Federalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Doesn’t Know What An Education Is Supposed To Be ›
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