Nikole Hannah-Jones faced backlash from conservative school choice advocates over her decision. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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New York Times journalist and 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones reflected Wednesday on what she called the "pretty brutal" responses she received for her viral New York Times Magazine essay on sending her daughter to predominantly Black public schools .

A decade after defending her choice, Hannah-Jones admitted in an essay last month that she regretted aspects of her decision to send her now-16-year-old daughter to these schools in an effort to combat school segregation, after her child informed Hannah-Jones that she did not receive the education she wanted.

"Now I felt overcome with regret. Najya deserved better," Hannah-Jones wrote in her September essay. "They all did. But she was mine. This girl, my only child, looked to me to protect her, to give her what she needed to thrive.…