From the moment the New York Times started to roll out installments of The 1619 Project in 2019, this painstakingly researched and groundbreaking long-form origin story heightened ongoing discussion ...

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas described slavery as a "necessary evil" in his ongoing effort to prevent US schools from teaching the 1619 Project, an initiative from The New York Times that ...

It was 400 years ago that the first enslaved African people arrived in what would become English North America. Organizations across the country, state and region have been marking that historic ...

They say slavery began in 1619 – but that’s a lie by omission. For centuries, millions of Europeans were bought, sold, and worked to death in a global trade erased from history books.

“Everybody that thought about the 1619 Project … saw that the Smithsonian had fingerprints on it,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III once said with pride—a curious boast given the project’s many ...

Earlier this year, the New York Times (NYT) launched it’s 1619 Project, a series of essays designed to refocus American history with the legacy of slavery at the center of the American narrative.