Web siteNikole Hannah-Jones has spent the last five years investigating the way racial segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy. She has written extensively about school resegregation across the country and the utter disarray of hundreds of school desegregation orders. She has also chronicled the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act and wrote one of the most widely read analyses of the racial implications of the controversial Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action Supreme Court case. Nikole's has won several national awards, including the Peabody Award, George Polk Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, and the Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. She was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists and was also named to The Root 100. She is also a 2017 New America Fellow.