Universities Spend Over Half a Million Dollars on 1619 Project Author!

Key Points: Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of the 1619 Project, has been hired to speak at 33 events in 2022, with 12 of those engagements taking place at publicly-funded entities. Just 12 universities have paid a combined $521,000 in speaking fees to Hannah-Jones, with an average cost of $43,000 per engagement. Hannah-Jones’ most lucrative engagement