03/05/2024
Soulful Expressions #4 - Nikole Hannah Jones is a visionary, a trailblazer, and a champion of the truth. Her light shines bright in the darkness, illuminating the path toward a brighter, more just world. She has become our beacon of insight, truth and integrity.
A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a bestselling author, an Emmy-award winning documentarian, a trailblazing professor at Howard, a constant advocate for social justice. Nikole transcends all her roles embodying a courageous commitment that reverberates through the annals of our shared history.
Nikole was our keynote at the first Juneteenth Jubilee Festival in 2022. Despite her in demand schedule, she showed up at our free community festival. Nikole spoke to a full house on the same stage that Frederick Douglass spoke to a full house 150 years earlier imploring America to end the evils of slavery. It was powerful moment that noted both the progress and how far we yet have travel on our journey.
Please join us in celebrating Nikole’s extraordinary contributions by heeding her call to action. Let us amplify the voices of the unheard, challenge the status quo, and strive to build a more equitable society for all.
The lens of captures her power, her warmth, her irreverence and her determination. In this portrait her unwavering commitment to universal justice and truth comes directly at us through her eyes as a challenge and a question.
In honoring Nikole Hannah Jones, we pay homage to a luminary whose soulful expressions shine through way towards a a more truthful and just world.
Soulful Expressions, “Truth Seeker” Portrait 4 of 20. Taken on location: Jubilee MV, Juneteenth Weekend 2023. Photographer: Lynsey Weatherspoon, Juneteenth Artist in Residence.