It’s her interest in history that brought Hannah-Jones to Weber State University on Friday evening, sharing her personal stories and groundbreaking work with a packed Ogden theater.
The New York Times Magazine writer told the Ogden crowd about her formative years and how she thinks history shapes who we are today.
It’s that interest in history that brought Hannah-Jones to Weber State University on Friday evening, sharing her personal stories and groundbreaking work with a packed Ogden theater., a venture that detailed the origins of slavery in America and its impact in the hundreds of years since — spoke at the campus with KUER RadioWest host Doug Fabrizio. The Weber State event was a part of its Browning Presents series.
It was in that hometown that she learned of a ship of slaves being brought to America in 1619, roughly a year before the Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower to the New World. She said the date was long forgotten prior to her project, but that’s the type of information she wanted to unearth and reeducate the public.
“That, to me, is the most powerful thing that a storyteller can do, is shape our collective understanding of who we are,” Hannah-Jones told the crowd, which responded with applause.
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