Here is the truth, African Americans built this country for free. Yes, I said it. The horrors of the American slave trade contributed to America’s current economic success, military might, and role in ...

In August of 1619, the English warship White Lion sailed into Hampton Roads, Virginia, where the conjunction of the James, Elizabeth and York rivers meet the Atlantic Ocean. The White Lion’s captain ...

A campaign by Republican lawmakers in several states to prohibit the teaching of the New York Times’ 1619 Project in public schools has reignited the debate over who controls our understanding of the ...

What does it mean to tell a country's story? In August 2019, The New York Times Magazine proposed one answer to this question for the United States. A package of essays taking up an entire issue of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. President Donald Trump is continuing to wage ...

Angela landed in the Virginia Colony in the sweltering summer of 1619, after being brutally snatched from her native Africa. Along with other Africans, she was held captive in the bowels of a boat ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones talks with Ben Kieffer about her new book and returning to Waterloo for a conversation with Rev. Ray Dial. Hannah-Jones is a local of Waterloo. She will return to her hometown ...

An Iowa measure to ban public schools from using a project that teaches about slavery won subcommittee approval Tuesday, making it eligible for consideration by the state's House Education Committee.

The Times' 1619 Project director Nikole Hannah-Jones now argues that 1619 wasn't the "true founding" of America. Stefan Jeremiah Not content with aiming to rewrite American history with its 1619 ...

The cinematic adaptation of The 1619 Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times essay series that accelerated the vociferous debate over Critical Race Theory, makes its debut on Hulu tonight.

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The New York Times’ 1619 Project selected Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, as a filming location for its new Hulu docuseries. In doing so, creator Nikole Hannah-Jones sought to bolster her project’s ...