Nikole Hannah-Jones is definitely someone whose work I should get to know. She started the 1619 project. She also fought political opposition in her teaching career. She was born in Waterloo, Iowa and has written about Iowa as well.
Reading list:
- The Problem We All Live With
- Fields of Lost Dreams: How Race and Racism Have Contributed to the Overrepresentation of Blacks in the Iowa Prison System (her dissertation)
- Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
- America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One