SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Hulu series host Nikole Hannah-Jones is set to speak at a Juneteenth event in Springfield.
The University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies, in partnership with Juneteenth Inc., the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the UIS Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice, will host a conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, host and executive producer of the Hulu docuseries "The 1619 Project," as part of its Juneteenth Lecture Series.
The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 212 N. Sixth St. in Springfield.
The event is titled “Free-ish: Juneteenth and the Long Legacy of 1619—a conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones."
The Hulu docuseries “The 1619 Project” won the 2024 Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.
The event is free and open to the public, but a ticket is required. Tickets are available at go.uis.edu/Juneteenth2026.
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