We need a real national museum, not a 1619 museum. But the 1619 Project's fingerprints are all over the Smithsonian's African American museum.

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 ...

*In a visit Wednesday to “The Daily Show,” New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones chats with host Trevor Noah about the 1619 Project and its exploration of the ways America is still ...

“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 ...