1619 Slavery

From the moment Fatima Morrell read The New York Times’ 1619 Project last year, the educator embraced the 100-page magazine special issue on slavery and racism as a professional godsend. Morrell, an associate superintendent in the Buffalo, N.Y., school distri…

Sen. Tim Kaine was so taken aback when President Donald Trump's defense attorney Robert Ray criticized a New York Times series about the history of slavery during his presentation in the Senate impeachment trial that he later confronted Ray about the remarks. "To me, it seemed like an ad hominem attack on…

The 1619 ProjectThe New York Times Magazine's much vaunted series of essays about the introduction of African slavery to the Americaswill now be taught in K-12 schools around the country. School districts in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Buffalo, New York, …

W ith much fanfare, The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue in August to what it called the 1619 Project. The project’s aim, the magazine announced, was to reinterpret the entirety of American history. “Our democracy’s founding ideals,” its lead e…

Earlier this year the New York Times (NYT) launched its 1619 Project, a series of essays designed to refocus American history with the legacy of slavery at the center of the American narrative. Since its inception, the project has garnered considerable attent…

Earlier this year the New York Times (NYT) launched its 1619 Project, a series of essays designed to refocus American history with the legacy of slavery at the center of the American narrative. Since its inception, the project has garnered considerable attent…

THE 1619 PROJECT ON MLK DAY: One of the many odd things about the New York Timess 1619 Project on slavery is that Martin Luther King Jr is barely mentioned (ditto Frederick Douglass). This omission may not be accidental, since both Douglass and King found sou…

America’s original revolutionaries, along with Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr., all placed the universalist ideals of the Declaration of Independence at the center of this country’s founding. But that paradigm is under vigorous…