"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press." Ida B. Wells, muckraking journalist.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative reporter at ProPublica in New York City. She covers discrimination and waste in federal programs and has launched a project on failures to enforce the Fair Housing Act.
Prior to joining ProPublica, Hannah-Jones reported for the largest daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, The Oregonian in Portland, Ore. She covered numerous beats at The Oregonian including demographics, the census and county government.
