The 1619 Project The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

The 1619 Project began with the publication, in August 2019, of a special issue of The New York Times Magazine containing essays on different aspects of contemporary American life, ...

On Jan. 28, 2019, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who has been a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine since 2015, came to one of our weekly ideas meetings with a very big idea.

The letter below was published in the Dec. 29 issue of The New York Times Magazine. RE: The 1619 Project We write as historians to express our strong reservations about important aspects of The ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones joined a candid discussion of the project and ways to share the new books “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” and “Born on the Water” with students.

A little over three years ago, after The 1619 Project was first published, The New York Times began the process of turning it into a television documentary. It was clear, from the initial response ...

The 1619 Project, which was conceived of and led by Nikole Hannah-Jones, a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, advances a bold claim: that the date when the first enslaved Africans ...

The 1619 Project, launched in 2019 by the New York Times, sought to rewrite American history in the service of contemporary domestic identity politics.While it was promoted as a supposedly “anti ...

The project also includes a multipart audio series with The Daily featuring Ms. Hannah-Jones, a page dedicated to understanding the significance of 1619 in the upcoming issue of The New York Times ...

The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

After the New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History, the definitive left-wing critique of the NYT’s 1619 Project, Mehring Books offers two new WSWS pamphlets ...

In August, The New York Times Magazine marked this anniversary by launching The 1619 Project, which examines the many ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape and define life in the United ...