Nikole Hannah-Jones created "The 1619 Project," which began as a collection of essays that soon spawned a book and a podcast, and now a Hulu series. (John Minchillo/AP) In early 2019, New York Times ...

"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 ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones, right, speaks at Weber State University as part of the Browning Presents series on Friday, March 31, 2023. Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the creator of ...

From the moment the New York Times started to roll out installments of The 1619 Project in 2019, this painstakingly researched and groundbreaking long-form origin story heightened ongoing discussion ...

The political polarization evident in the response to the 1619 Project – the New York Times’ sweeping journalistic initiative timed to the 400th anniversary of slavery in America – makes its ...

The “history wars” have heated up as more schools debate whether America’s founding goes back to Independence Day in 1776 or to the first Africans facing slavery in 1619 Virginia. A growing number of ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones wants to reframe the way we perceive American history. “Our political, cultural, legal, educational systems can be traced back to slavery and the anti-Blackness that grew from it, ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, where much of her family still lives. As an 11-year-old, she wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper about a presidential primary. In 2017, ...

The 1619 Project is back in the news with the release of the six-part Hulu series built around the claim that “nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.” Progressives ...

A recent episode of a Disney+ cartoon show has woke kids performing a skit around the theme “Slaves built this country.” The installment of the “Proud Family” series — in which the kids find out the ...

In early 2019, New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones made a simple pitch to her editors. The year marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to the English colony of ...

In early 2019, New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones made a simple pitch to her editors. The year marked the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans to the English colony of ...