Book review: "The Race Beat," by Roberts and Klibanoff
Almost as interesting these days as this book – The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (2007), by the journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (which I hasten to assure you, was pretty damn gripping) – is how I stumbled across it in the first place , and for that story, we turn first to one Nikole Hannah-Jones . Hannah-Jones is the main creative force behind the 1619 Project , a journalistic endeavor published in the Aug. 14, 2019 issue of The New York Times Magazine . She is a recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called genius grant), and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2020 . The 1619 Project was wildly popular, if also controversial in more conservative circles, and since then has morphed into several other projects, includ ing a highly informative and entertaining five-part podcast . A book, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story , came out last November. One of the goals of the 1619 Project is to promo