Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project

Oprah's Super Soul

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Oprah speaks with Nikole Hannah-Jones about her New York Times bestselling book The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine from August of 2019. In the book’s collection of essays, Jones along with a variety of esteemed authors, journalists, historians, and poets share how the inception of enslavement in America in 1619 reaches into every part of American society up to present day. Nikole Hannah-Jones shares her thoughts on how the resistance efforts of Black Americans have always strived to hold our country accountable to the ideals of the Constitution.

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0:00.0	This episode of SuperSoul is supported by the new Hulu original series, The 1619 Project.
0:06.0	From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicole Hannah Jones, an Academy Award-winning director,
0:10.8	Roger Ross Williams, this six-part documentary series is based on the groundbreaking New York Times
0:16.4	essays, podcasts, and award-winning book. The series examines the legacy of slavery in America,
0:21.6	and explores how it has shaped nearly all aspects of our society today, from policing to music
0:26.4	to capitalism and our democracy. Watch The 1619 Project, new episodes premiere Thursday starting
0:32.4	January 26th, streaming only on Hulu. I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to SuperSoul Conversations,
0:40.2	the podcast. I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time,
0:47.5	taking time to be more fully present. Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the
0:54.9	deeper world around us starts right now. Well, Nicole Hannah Jones, hello. Hello, how are you?
1:04.4	I'm good and I'm so delighted that you have taken the time to talk to me about 1619, which I know
1:13.6	that by now it's been on the best sellers list for so long and you've been around the country,
1:18.4	you've been around in different parts of the world. I'm thinking this woman is talked out.
1:25.9	I'm never too talked out to talk with you and I'm honored to be on here and discussing
1:30.6	this work with you. This is, as I say, I believed from the first Sunday that this issue came out
1:41.2	in the New York Times magazine and I read it and saw your byline and understood that you were behind
1:49.1	the making of it. I believed in that moment that this was a supreme moment of destiny for you,
1:56.0	that this thing had been, you know, that I know that a thing like this does not show up in a
2:00.8	person's life without a lot of soul work, a lot of labor, a lot of challenge, a lot of struggle
2:10.6	to get here. So can you tell us how working at the New York Times and making the decision that
2:18.4	you wanted this to be at the forefront of something that the magazine would launch out into the world,
2:25.6	how that came to be? Oh, God. That's, you know, there's the short origin story and the long origin
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