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This is Our Body Politics. I'm the creator and host, Farai Chidea. This week I bring you conversations about how we in the U.S. understand our country's history and how we craft our national narrative. And I talked to two experts about how to be safe when engaging with police on our weekly roundtable sipping the political tea. First, what it means to talk about our country's history of slavery.

Nicole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist at the New York Times.

She's most well known for creating the 1619 project, a collection of essays and research about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.

She's also co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which mentors

and trains investigative reporters and editors of color.

It's named after Hannah Jones' hero, Ida B. Wells,

the pioneering black investigative journalist who turned a spotlight on lynchings at the turn of the 20th century.

Nicole Hannah-Jones, welcome to Our Body Politics.

Hi, how are you?

Great. I'm really glad to have you with us.

And, of course, your work has been so influential in recent years and controversial,

depending on who you are.

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