The 1619 Project Isn’t Going Anywhere

It started with a simple fact: “The first group of enslaved Africans were brought here over 400 years ago,” Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones can be overheard saying in the trailer for Hulu’s documentary adaptation of The 1619 Project. In 2019, The New York Times released an ambitious and expansive project including a series of essays and poems that meditated on the year 1619, not only as the beginning of chattel slavery in the country that would eventually be known as the United States of America, but as the year, Jones and the project would posit, that American democracy was… Read Full Article