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her Black American father never introduced her to her Black extended family.
A published profile of Nikole Hannah-Jones says the opposite: she grew up near multiple relatives on her father’s side and explicitly described spending time with “my Black family.”
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A 2021 Vanity Fair profile directly contradicts this claim. The article says that “Most of her aunts and uncles from Milton's side of the family lived within a few blocks” and quotes Hannah-Jones saying, “when I was with my Black family, I was just one of them.”
Those statements show that she did in fact know and spend time with her Black extended family on her father's side, so the claim that her father “never introduced her to her Black extended family” is incorrect.
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- 1619 Project Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones Talks About Her New Book | Vanity Fair
Most of her aunts and uncles from Milton's side of the family lived within a few blocks... "It was clear to me that when I was with my Black family, I was just one of them."