1619 Slavery

Policymakers are beginning to decide how to reopen the American economy. Until now, they’ve largely prioritized human health: Restrictions in all but a handful of states remain in effect, and trillions have been committed to help shuttered businesses and those who have been furloughed or laid off. The right time…

Policymakers are beginning to decide how to reopen the American economy. Until now, they’ve largely prioritized human health: Restrictions in all but a handful of states remain in effect, and trillions have been committed to help shuttered businesses and those who have been furloughed or laid off. The right time…

The New York Times is widely admired for owning up to its errors. In addition to the corrections it runs each day, it has a tradition of publishing extensive Editor’s Notes and even full-length investigations when it has determined that flawed reporting misled readers and botched the rough first draft…

April 28, 2020 8:40 AM ET On today’s podcast we talk with Dr. Wilfred Reilly, professor of political science at Kentucky State University, about a piece he wrote that examines the data surrounding lockdowns and stay at home orders. What he found was telling. Not only did lockdowns not correlate…

The impact of diseases and epidemics on human life is as old as humanity. Disease is mentioned in texts thousands of years old, its presence changed political and economic history, cultural habits, and even morality. But often we think of disease as a stranger. It’s something that comes from somewhere…

Taking cues from the Investigative Reporters and Editors and News Leaders Association annual awards, here's an updated Pulitzer Prize preview With the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes scheduled to be announced next Monday after a two-week delay because of the coronavirus pandemic, Poynter has a chance to update its earlier Pulitzer preview…

I had this fantasy that the New York Times would follow up its 1619 Project look at slavery with a comparable examination of Settler Colonialism. Instead, they made a pivot from slavery to what they are calling the “Inequality Project. Apparently the Times is OK with that whole settler colonialism…

photo credit: Bigstock First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same. —Alexander Pope If anything good has come from these hard corona days, it’s the occasion they’ve provided for rethinking education. Parents around the country are homeschooling their children, and though that…

New York–based artist Dannielle Bowman has been selected as the winner of Aperture’s 2020 Portfolio Prize, the annual award which aims to “identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artists whose work deserves greater recognition.”Chosen for her ongoing series “What Had Happened,” which captures notions of displacement, family history, and home…

When The New York Times launched its 1619 Project last year, it sought to "reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative." What began as a series of articles in the Times magazine morphed into a collection…