Pulitzer Prize-Winning 1619 Project Creator: There’s A ‘Difference Between Being Politically Black And Being Racially Black’

On Friday, Nikole Hannah-Jones, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine who was the creator of the 1619 Project and won a Pulitzer Prize for “her essay that served as the leading piece in the 1619 Project,” as The Times reported, issued, then deleted a tweet in which she posited that there was a “difference between being politically black and racially black.”

Tweet quickly deleted by Nikole Hannah-Jones: pic.twitter.com/KDgqMVAz0a