5 minutes with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect behind The New York Times' '1619 Project'

Journalists like words. And when the right words are put together with data and research (well-known or otherwise), things can happen. Nikole Hannah-Jones, investigative reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of "The 1619 Project," knows this firsthand. The project hit newsstands in late summer - marking the anniversary of 400 years that have passed since a ship arrived at Point Comfort in the British colony of Virginia in late August 1619 with enslaved Africans.

Hannah-Jones has been a person of note