Nikole Hannah-Jones is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. She joined The New York Times as a staff writer in April 2015 and is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020 for her work on The 1619 Project.