Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘Trump Used His Most Vile Rhetoric and Attacks Against Black Women Journalists ... We Can Expect More of That’ (clip) (0:00:41)

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COLEMAN: “Threading that needle between engagement and exhaustion is something that I have conversations with people about all the time. I want to talk to you about the notion of the intersection of where you sit and others like you in particular being someone in media and journalism but also being a black woman and how that uniquely shapes your lens going into the next four years as any one of those groups faces a special and unique set of attacks but then to have the culmination of what that represents in one person n one human body, how does that change how you navigate the space of doing what you’re supposed to do as a story teller?”

HANNAH-Jones: “We can look at the way that Trump used his most vile rhetoric and attacks against black women journalists, against Yamiche Alcindor, April Ryan. We saw this again and again. We can expect more of that. There’s a reason for that that black women hold a very particular position in the society. Black women also were those who voted against Trump at the highest rates of all racial groups. And so, when black women seek to hold that power accountable, that’s seen as more dangerous. And that black women are less protected in this society. So, I know that as a black woman journalist, you know, my former Twitter handle I’m no longer using as a platform anymore, was idabwells. That was me always trying to center myself in a tradition, a tradition of the black press, a tradition of black women who were determined to tell the truth, even if it cost them. We know that when ida b. wells spoke the truth about white men lynching black men. She become a refugee away from memphis. She was forced out. We understand as black women what is required of us to be journalists and to tell the truth. But that also means that because of that history, we stand on strong shoulders.”