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 ...
Armed members of the West Virginia National Guard are positioned across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. [AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.] Six years ago this month, on August ...
“Everybody that thought about the 1619 Project … saw that the Smithsonian had fingerprints on it,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III once said with pride, a curious boast given the Project’s many ...