It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...
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 ...
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 ...
Virginia is considering a great idea: restoring the original name of the place where the arc of the moral universe bent toward emancipation. In 1619 as “Point Comfort,” that historic landscape saw the ...
Angela landed in the Virginia Colony in the sweltering summer of 1619, after being brutally snatched from her native Africa. Along with other Africans, she was held captive in the bowels of a boat ...
The VIP crowd shivered in a line that snaked around a downtown D.C. block, about 1,650 patrons who had tickets to a limited access opening Friday night. They weren’t headed to an exclusive nightclub ...
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.
“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 ...
Late-night hosts Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers roasted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for calling slavery a “necessary evil” and for objecting to teaching the 1619 Project in schools, in what Noah called the ...