When Nikole Hannah-Jones first sat down to begin work on The 1619 Project, she probably didn’t anticipate the immense impact it would have. She likely didn’t expect that it would become the basis of a new educational curriculum. And she most certainly didn’t foresee that her work would elicit the seismic wrath of Trump and his right-wing cronies.
Ignited by the upcoming 400-year anniversary of this event, Hannah-Jones pitched her editor at The New York Times Magazine. What resulted was a groundbreaking work with a comprehensive focus on slavery’s impact on shaping the nation’s institutions, economics, and culture, thereby challenging sanitized narratives about the origins of racism, classism, and gender inequity in America.
Throughout her career, Hannah-Jones studied the work of her Black journalistic foreparents, including civil rights leader, suffragist, and investigative journalist Ida B. Wells, whose legacy of race-related reporting paved the way for Hannah-Jones. Wells’ inspiration and influence led Hannah-Jones to co-found the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting with three other Black journalists in 2015, dedicated to mentoring and supporting journalists of color, among other objectives.
In line with a pattern of efforts by the Trump administration to undermine the progress of racial justice initiatives in the aftermath of Charlottesville and Black Lives Matter protests worldwide, attempts to undermine the credibility of The 1619 Project included trying to penalize schools for adding the project’s Pulitzer Center-supported curriculum to their lesson plans and labeling the highly acclaimed research and content as “toxic,” and “ideologically poisonous” while announcing a new,...
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