1619 Slavery

The Hulu series The 1619 Project and the Showtime feature Nothing Lasts Forever scored a leading three nominations apiece today as the Cinema Eye Honors announced its first round of contenders for the prestigious documentary-focused awards. The 1619 Project, based on Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of slavery in North…

History & CultureNikole Hannah-Jones discusses how the project reframes the role of slavery in American society “in ways that we don't know.” ByDebra Adams Simmons Published January 24, 2023 • 14 min read Nikole Hannah-Jones grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, where much of her family still lives. As an 11-year-old,…

The Pulitzer Center is advertising a paid internship to college students in education programs who are willing to push the debunked, anti-American “1619 Project” on K12 students. “Our K-12 education team works with schools to bring pressing underreported issues, and the journalists who cover them, into the classroom,” reads the…

A clip of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis whitewashing the history of chattel slavery, abolition and the American Revolution has gone viral online in recent days, with many people dunking on DeSantis for his idiocy.  But this is no laughing matter.  Speaking at an event Tuesday, the Republican tried to downplay…

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The deep chasm in American political culture continues to open, and to generate irreconcilable positions on everything from climate change to Covid-19 to critical race theory. The intensity of this divide is driven largely by the zeal of the right and its appetite to remake the polity in its image,…

In June, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill that prohibits “race scapegoating” and “race stereotyping” in K-12 education, as well as teaching “specific concepts” such as “the United States of America and the state of Iowa are fundamentally or systemically racist.” The law, which targets critical race theory without…

Chapel Hill, N.C. Trustees at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill approved tenure Wednesday for Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, capping weeks of tension that began when a board member halted the process over questions about her teaching credentials. The board voted 9-4 to accept the…

UNC-Chapel Hill’s board on Wednesday voted to approve tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. The board voted in a 9-4 decision, in favor of tenure after weeks of controversy over Hannah-Jones’ job protections. She was originally hired in April and intended to start her new role at UNC in July. Last…

In the early 2000s, before the levees broke in New Orleans, it was still possible to be a provincial New Englander and drive in a shiny rental car down Interstate 45 toward Galveston, Texas, without feeling anything except a profound appreciation for the beauty glistening off the West Bay in…