The author of the controversial 1619 Project will speak at RIT this winter.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine.
She'll head RIT's 41st "Expressions of Dr. Martin Luther King's Legacy" on Tuesday, January 31st.
The 1619 Project was created to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the Virginia Colony...but some historians criticized its take on history, specifically a claim that defense of slavery was one cause of the American Revolution. And political leaders including former President Trump denounced it's education component as "Critical Race Theory."