Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on ‘The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story’

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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“Many historians have been seduced by the desire to manage the story of our founding, protecting our identity as an exceptional, fundamentally just nation,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones in the preface to “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.” The project, created by Hannah-Jones, reframes our popular understanding of U.S. history and considers “a new origin story” that started not with the Declaration of Independence, but rather with the introduction of slavery in late August 1619, when the first ship carrying enslaved people from Africa arrived in the British colony of Virginia. Originally launched as a special edition of the New York Times Magazine in 2019, an expanded book version of the project came out in November. We’ll talk to Hannah-Jones about the new book, the debates the project has sparked about how we write and teach U.S. history and the power of shared national memory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.9	We talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of the 1619 Project, Nicole Hannah-Jones.
1:06.2	The New York Times Magazine Special Edition that first came out in 2019 asked readers to consider a new origin
1:12.7	story for America that's not the Declaration of Independence, but rather when the first ship
1:17.9	carrying enslaved people from Africa arrived in the British colony of Virginia.
1:23.3	The 1619 Project is now a book that expands on slavery's deep and enduring role in American society
1:29.6	and response to debates sparked by its reframing of U.S. history.
1:34.3	Nicole Hannah-Jones joins us next on Forum. I'm Mina Kim. For Martin Luther King Day yesterday, Nicole Hannah-Jones,
1:53.7	creator of the 1619 project, was asked to give a speech. Only to learn, she tweeted, that a small
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