# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Shawn"Jay-Z" Carter Lecture with Nikole Hannah Jones - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Nikole Hannah Jones renowned journalist and creator of the 1619 Project in conversation w/ Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism SchoolAbout this EventNikole Hannah-JonesNikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University where she is the founding director of the Center for Journalism & Democracy.A journalist for more than two decades, she is the founding Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University. She founded the Ida B. Wells Society, the 1619 Freedom School, the Center for Journalism & Democracy, Iola’s Lyceum. Her latest venture, The North Star Books + Bar, will open in Brooklyn this fall.Nikole’s reporting has earned her the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur “Genius” Grant, an Emmy, two NAACP Image Awards, the Knight Award for Public Service, the Peabody Award, two George Polk awards and the National Magazine Award. She is a Society of American Historians Fellow and a member of the Academy of Arts & Sciences.https://www.nikolehannahjones.com/Jelani CobbJelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst since 2019.He is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic and most recently, Three Or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025. He is the editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Matter of Black Lives, a collection of The New Yorker’s writings on race and The Essential Kerner Commission Report. He is producer or co-producer on a number of documentaries including Lincoln’s Dilemma, Obama: A More Perfect Union, Policing the Police and THE RIOT REPORT.Presented In Collaboration with African American & African Diaspora Studies Department -Columbia University, The Institute For Research In African-American Studies- Columbia University, Columbia Journalism School And The Institute For Social And Economic Research And Policy- Columbia UniversityPre-Registration and Check-in is required for admission to the forum. Full first & last name must be entered. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/the-shawnjay-z-carter-lecture-with-nikole-hannah-jones/100001997061291081 - **Event Categories**: art, sports, literary-art, entertainment, business, dance, science-fair - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: under_16_with_guardian - door_time: 2026-09-18T22:00:00Z - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: The Lee Bollinger Forum - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: The Lee Bollinger Forum - **lat**: 40.8162528 - **long**: -73.95838859999999 - **full address**: The Lee Bollinger Forum, 601 West 125th Street, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Shawn"Jay-Z" Carter Lecture with Nikole Hannah Jones - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/6296e91fb89fa207f2fc3775e6ceea7d1aa7adebc4f2cf615cf45a272b5c8923-rimg-w1200-h630-dc080808-gmir.jpg?v=1787728939 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Shawn"Jay-Z" Carter Lecture with Nikole Hannah Jones being held? - **A:** The Shawn"Jay-Z" Carter Lecture with Nikole Hannah Jones takes place on Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Fri, 18 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at The Lee Bollinger Forum, 601 West 125th Street, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Shawn"Jay-Z" Carter Lecture with Nikole Hannah Jones? - **A:** The Shawn"Jay-Z" Carter Lecture with Nikole Hannah Jones is organized by African American & African Diaspora - Columbia U. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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