1619 Slavery

By Leia IdlibyJun 1st, 2020, 11:57 am Filmmaker Spike Lee debuted his latest short film on Sunday night during the CNN special I Can’t Breathe: Black Men Living and Dying in America, which showed a compilation of scenes from his 1989 film Do The Right Thing and of the fatal arrests of…

by Greg Mayer The New York Times‘ ‘1619 Project’, and the critical reaction to it, has drawn attention here at WEIT a number of times. The diversity of the sources of criticism has been notable, ranging across the traditional political spectrum from left to right. In another salvo from the…

The creator of the controversial 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine commentary series on the impact of slavery in America, is now saying her work was meant to be "journalism" and "not a history." "The 1619 Project is not a history," Nikole Hannah-Jones said in an MSNBC interview on Sunday. "It…

The creator of the controversial 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine commentary series on the impact of slavery in America, is now saying her work was meant to be "journalism" and "not a history." "The 1619 Project is not a history," Nikole Hannah-Jones said in an MSNBC interview on Sunday. "It…

May 8, 2020 | 8:28pm In the absence of traditional public examinations this time of year, as a result of you know what, here’s a little history quiz for you. What year marked the creation of the United States? Most of you will probably answer 1776, the year of the…

History has been subordinated to the “passions and interests” of the present. Bruce Thornton is a Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The Pulitzer folks have awarded their prize to the New York Times for the lead essay in its “1619 Project,” a bit of lefty agitprop so…

The Pulitzer committee on Monday afternoon bestowed its prestigious award on Nikole Hannah-Jones’ opening article in The New York Times’ 1619 Project, despite the essay’s self-acknowledged factual inaccuracies. Historians of every political stripe have derided the project and Hannah-Jones’s essay in particular. Gordon Wood, a reliably left-wing but widely celebrated…

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Here’s what we’re Sifting today Associated Press/Photo by Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily NewsAnchorage Daily News reporter Kyle Hopkins (right) and his wife KTUU-TV anchor Rebecca Palsha watch the Pulitzer Prize announcements in an empty newsroom on Monday. Reporters and authors covering immigration, racism, sexual violence, and other social controversies filled the…

It took sixteen long years for the journalism establishment to vindicate Dan Rather, but yesterday the Pulitzer Prize committee finally accomplished its goal. As John wrote yesterday, the egregiously error-filled “1619 Project” won recognition from Pulitzer as “a sweeping, deeply reported and personal essay,” without mentioning that it came under…