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 ...

From the moment the New York Times started to roll out installments of The 1619 Project in 2019, this painstakingly researched and groundbreaking long-form origin story heightened ongoing discussion ...

Contrary to popular progressive opinion, slaves did not build America. Rather, the institution of slavery harmed America ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones wants to reframe the way we perceive American history. “Our political, cultural, legal, educational systems can be traced back to slavery and the anti-Blackness that grew from it, ...

A: The first people who come to Jamestown from Africa in a sense come as slaves. We're not sure whether they had been captured off a slave ship in the Caribbean or whether they'd been transported ...

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 ...

Virginia is considering a great idea: restoring the original name of the place where the arc of the moral universe bent toward emancipation. In 1619 as “Point Comfort,” that historic landscape saw 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 ...

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 ...