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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It started with a simple fact: “The first group of enslaved Africans were brought here over 400 years ago ...

ABC Owned Television Stations presents "Our America: Hidden Stories," featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and ABC Race and Culture reporters across the country.

The historian Joseph J. Ellis deals honestly with America’s original sins without slandering the country or diminishing its ...

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 ...

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 ...