"Najya deserved better." 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones says she regrets aspects of the decision to send her daughter to predominantly Black, high-poverty public schools in Brooklyn, acknowledging she put broader ideals about educational inequality ahead of her daughter's individual needs. Her now-16-year-old daughter told her, "Sometimes I wish instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me. I never really got the education I wanted." Hannah-Jones says she ultimately apologized, telling her daughter, "I feel like you got cheated." Read more: