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I’m a print reporter, so I always think in that way. I wish I was the visionary who could have foreseen all of this.

Here, Hannah-Jones discusses the project’s reception, reparations, what story she hopes to write next, and why she generally sticks to nonfiction:ĭid you anticipate that the 1619 project would evolve into what it has? What has surprised you most about it? Our colonial history remains a modern reality, and the work of the 1619 team-including Oprah Winfrey who touts an Executive Producer title, award-winning director Roger Ross Williams, and Emmy-nominated Shoshana Guy as showrunner-demands we question how we got here as a society and what we can collectively do to repair our centuries of harm. The day after the docu-series’ release, the video of Tyre Nichols’ murder by five (now former) Memphis police officers circulated social media.

After nearly four years in the public eye, the project-which traces the experiences of Black Americans to their original enslavement in 1619 at a coastal port in Virginia-has inspired curriculums, won Hannah-Jones a Pulitzer Prize, and even incited legal tension between her and former employer Chapel Hill following a host of backlash from right wing critics.Ī week before 1619 came to Hulu, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rejected an AP African American History course currently being piloted in select high schools nationally. "You cannot tell the story of America without telling the story of Black America,” opens the trailer for The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones’ New York Times series, podcast, and book that, on January 26, launched in its latest iteration as a six-episode docu-series on Hulu.