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Counter narrative: Black Americans, the 1619 Project, and Nikole Hannah-Jones
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Counter narrative: Black Americans, the 1619 Project, and Nikole Hannah-Jones

According to the 1619 Project's’ Nikole Hannah-Jones, America was founded on liberty, equality, and…slavery. The institution of slavery, she argues, was the foundation upon which the country achieved its economic and political greatness. It’s a claim that set the cultural world on fire when the 1619 Project was published in the New York Times in 2019 and now, as she compiles and expands upon that project in a new book, controversy has erupted once again.

Nikole Hannah-Jones pushes back against "disqualifying" 1619 Project criticism
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Nikole Hannah-Jones pushes back against "disqualifying" 1619 Project criticism

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has often had to defend her work as creator of the 1619 Project, a piece of modern journalism that has gained as much praise on one end of the US political spectrum as it has sparked outrage on the other. Hannah-Jones admits some of the criticism was fair game — and that's one reason she’s just published an extended version of project in book form, entitled The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. But she rejects those who’ve tried to disqualify her and the project.

1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Rittenhouse verdict
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1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Rittenhouse verdict

When Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all counts, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who created the "1619 Project" tweeted: "In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619."