1619 Project author slammed for sending daughter to troubled NYC schools
TL;DR
New York Times co-creator Nikole Hannah-Jones faced backlash after revealing she and her husband sent their daughter Najya to largely low-performing NYC public schools to ‘help improve’ them. Najya, now about 16, reportedly struggled academically after years at PS 307 and Urban Assembly Unison. Critics said Hannah-Jones used her daughter as a political prop, prioritizing activism over her child’s education, while she argues in a NYT Magazine essay that she feels she failed her values and her child. The piece underscores tensions around education equity and the personal costs of political activism in parenting.
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