She also shares much of her own family history and explores how her grandparents demonstrate many of the topics.Įach of the six episodes address a different topic: Democracy, Race, Capitalism, Music, Fear, and Justice. Hannah-Jones serves as the host of it, interviewing other experts and people affected by the issues being discussed. The six part series is an expansion of the project by The New York Times Magazine, and is produced by Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey, amongst others.
In 2021, an anthology of some of the essays was released as a book, so it’s not surprising that the journalism project now comes to TV in the form of a docu-series. While the project has received significant criticism from right-wing politicians and some more legitimate critiques from historians, Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her introduction essay. It focuses both on retelling the whitewashed history of the country, while also exploring how modern issues are shaped by the legacy of slavery. The project looks to recontextualize the history of the United States through the effects of slavery and Black Americans’ contributions. As a graduate student in a Public History program, it would be impossible for me to escape knowledge of “The 1619 Project.” The journalism project was developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones with The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine and first launched in August 2019, on the four-hundredth anniversary of the first arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia.
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