DALLAS — New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, who has become the face of the much-talked about the 1619 Project, happened to be in Sen. Ted Cruz’s home state Tuesday, the day he negatively cited her work during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing in D.C. for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Hannah-Jones spoke to a crowd of more than 600 people at Southern Methodist University’s McFarlin Auditorium for the keynote event of the annual Dallas Literary Festival.
She was asked how she felt about Cruz’s line of questioning from earlier that day. After initially being perplexed, she said, she decided she was proud to be named in the record of the historic confirmation hearing.
