Only a few weeks after the death of Project 1619 founder and President Calvin Pearson, his successor — William Wiggins — has also died. Wiggins — who was a historian, scholar and cofounder of Project ...

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

D.C. Public Library and the Pulitzer Center invited students to contribute artwork to the “Freedom and Resistance” exhibit.

A new downtown Washington exhibit, inspired by the 1619 Project, explores slavery’s legacy and impact through art.

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 ...

Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate are partnering with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to adapt The New York Times' 1619 Project for film and television. Lionsgate said Wednesday that ...

The 1619 Freedom School in Waterloo is hosting a community-wide “read-in” featuring Pulitzer Prize- winning author Nikole Hannah-Jones and other award-winning children’s book authors. The read-in is ...

Thais Perkins is the owner of Reverie Books in Austin, Texas, and the parent of a middle school student and high school student. Among the books she is eager to have in her store, and in the schools, ...