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NYT clarifies a passage in an essay from The 1619 Project that claimed a primary reason the US colonists fought the American Revolution was to protect slavery (Jake Silverstein/New York Times) 1619 Slavery

NYT clarifies a passage in an essay from The 1619 Project that claimed a primary reason the US colonists fought the American Revolution was to protect slavery (Jake Silverstein/New York Times)

2:50 PM ET, March 13, 2020 Sara Jerde / Adweek: Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia Journalism Review, @nytclimate, @jennafduncan, @jbenton, @jordanlawrence, @pattyguerra, @startribune, @markmazzettinyt, @katvchrismay, @nickpistor, @foreignaffairs, @coreyhutchins, @joshsternberg, @adweek and @media_evan RELATED: John Koblin / New York Times: Discussion: Awful Announcing, New York Post, Variety, @consumersos, HuffPost, @nytimes, The…
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March 13, 2020
1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones wants Black people to know role they play in America’s democracy 1619 Slavery

1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones wants Black people to know role they play in America’s democracy

New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones unveiled her life’s seminal work last fall, with the ground-breaking storytelling and informative reporting of the 1619 Project. Released during the 400-year anniversary of the first time Africans were sold into slavery in the Virginia colonies, Jones argues 1619 is just as important…
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March 9, 2020
A Fact-Checker Warned NYT About Their Inaccurate 1619 Project. The Times Didn’t Listen. 1619 Slavery

A Fact-Checker Warned NYT About Their Inaccurate 1619 Project. The Times Didn’t Listen.

A history professor who helped fact-check The New York Times’ debunked 1619 Project said her edits were ignored. Leslie Harris, a history professor at Northwestern University and an author, took to Politico to explain her experience with the Times’ 1619 Project and its claim that the American Revolution was fought to preserve…
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March 8, 2020