Image Image courtesy of Sushmita Jaya Mukherjee. 2025. How can ideas and themes from The 1619 Project provide deeper context ...

The 1619 Project, which has been praised for reframing our understanding of American history but attacked by conservatives who brand it as “woke-ism,” won the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction ...

"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 ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones responds to the controversy around her work. When "The 1619 Project" debuted two years ago as a special issue of The New York Times magazine, it both gained critical acclaim and ...

The 1619 Project is even worse than we all thought it was. We know, a difficult thing to believe. As we’ve pointed out before the 1619 Project was a deliberate attempt to mislead about America’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Two books based on the ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones is inspired by Black people. “I do have hope in us,” she said during a conversation via Zoom. “We [African Americans] should not be here. We should ...

In Texas, it’s not just educators and administrators trying to circumvent laws. Accuracy in Media’s latest hidden-camera investigation, which premiered Friday on Fox News, captured attorneys for a ...

Peninsula native and renowned historian Calvin Pearson, who friends describe as a huge force in educating Hampton Roads on the history of enslaved Africans, died last week at 73. Pearson is the ...

When The New York Times launched the 1619 Project, an ongoing initiative to reexamine the legacy of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans, in 2019, it sparked a national debate about the ...

Friday on the RCP Podcast, Andrew Walworth spoke to economic historian Phillip W. Magness about his new book: "The 1619 Project Myth" "They claim American economic development in the 19th century was ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how examining plantation records and market prices deepens our understanding of a devastating chapter in American history. When America celebrates its 250th ...