Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students at Eastern Senior High School in Washington reflected on the 1619 Project. "The 1619 Project," a six-part documentary ...

Oprah Winfrey is one of the troublemakers behind The 1619 Project, Hulu’s TV show. It’s a spin-off from the controversial 2019 New York Times Magazine opus led by writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, who ...

After the New York Times Magazine published the 1619 Project produced by Nikole Hannah-Jones two years ago, the backlash it sparked came along with the accolades it garnered. But this week, the ...

Walk in Benjamin Harrison’s Footsteps for Gilded Age Glam Elbridge Gerry’s Complex Legacy Its scholarly claims have faltered, yet its reputation has thrived in the universities because academic elites ...

The current row over the place of slavery in American history provokes long-standing anxieties over the nature of the country itself. For a nation that views itself as exceptional in its quest for ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, where much of her family still lives. As an 11-year-old, she wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper about a presidential primary. In 2017, ...

The political polarization evident in the response to the 1619 Project – the New York Times’ sweeping journalistic initiative timed to the 400th anniversary of slavery in America – makes its ...

Thais Perkins is the owner of Reverie Books in Austin, Texas, and the parent of a middle school student and high school student. Among the books she is eager to have in her store, and in the schools, ...