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‘We must act,’ says 1619 Project’s Hannah-Jones at UW-Madison

Nikole Hannah-Jones, a historian, professor and award-winning journalist, did not intend for her keynote speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to send a hopeful message. “If you came here to get uplifted and inspired: wrong speech,” she told the audience virtually and in person Tuesday for the MLK Symposium at Memorial Union. UW-Madison hosted the event in honor of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day.