"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It started with a simple fact: “The first group of enslaved Africans were brought here over 400 years ago ...

"The 1619 Project," a six-part documentary series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning essay and podcast series developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, is now streaming on Hulu. The project, a series of ...

Hulu's new adaptation of the 1619 Project has been out for a little less than a week, but some viewers — and even a few critics — are criticizing it for propagating a false understanding of American ...

Last April, the South Carolina legislature voted to require all high school and public college students to read America’s founding documents, including the Bill of Rights. Legislation introduced a ...

What does it mean to tell a country's story? In August 2019, The New York Times Magazine proposed one answer to this question for the United States. A package of essays taking up an entire issue of ...

The New York Times's long-form journalism initiative "The 1619 Project" is being turned into a docuseries for Hulu. The streamer released the first trailer for the new series on Jan. 4, followed by a ...

Red, White, and Black is a collection of essays published under the aegis of 1776 Unites, the “radically pragmatic and unapologetically patriotic” initiative launched last year by the Woodson Center, ...

In her book, "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story," creator and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones asks readers to reconsider the origin story of America: one that did not start ...

When “The 1619 Project” was released 3½ years ago, the ambitious reexamination of American history sparked difficult conversations about the legacy of slavery in the United States and earned praise ...

A reader sends this link to a powerful essay by Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, one of America’s leading historians, who writes about the scandal of The New York Times‘s 1619 Project, and the moral and ...

The New York Times Magazine essay series turned podcast and book has gotten the docuseries treatment, premiering in Los Angeles with support from executive producer Oprah Winfrey. By Evan Nicole Brown ...

The New York Times Magazine’s NYT The 1619 Project, which ran in an August 2019 issue and that explored the history and impact of slavery in the United States, is being expanded into book form with ...