What Happens After You Uncover Buried History?

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

4.5 • 10.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The 1619 Project was a New York Times Magazine endeavor that explored the ways the legacy of slavery still shapes American society. The story exploded into cultural consciousness in 2019, and has since become a book, a podcast, and now, a documentary series. For the project’s creators, that meant great success, but it also meant facing pushback and surprises. We talk to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones about how politics affected The 1619 Project and what it means to be in the middle of this social reckoning. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? The 1619 Project documentary examines how the legacy of slavery has influenced music, capitalism, and democracy itself. It premieres January 26 on Hulu. Also explore: Take a look at the original New York Times Magazine 1619 Project. It features articles, photo essays, and more that discuss how black Americans created democracy in the country, how segregation leads to traffic jams, and more. Check out the audio series that The New York Times produced. It explores topics like Black land ownership and health disparities. National Geographic also has extensive coverage of these issues, including the long and complicated legacy of Black landownership in the U.S., COVID's disproportionate death toll, and how Black Americans see racism infecting the U.S. health-care system. If you like what you hear and you want to support more content like this, please rate and review us in your podcast app and consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They say our people were born on the water, like nothing had existed before.
0:13.7	We were told by virtue of our bondage we could never be American, but it was by virtue
0:19.8	of our bondage that we became the most American of all.
0:24.4	That's a clip from a documentary about the legacy of slavery in America.
0:28.8	It's the latest offering from journalist Nicole Hannah Jones and the groundbreaking project
0:33.6	that was published in the New York Times magazine in 2019, exploding into public consciousness.
0:40.5	It has since turned into a series of articles, a book, a podcast, and now this upcoming
0:46.5	Hulu series.
0:48.5	You cannot tell the story of America without telling the story of Black America.
0:56.0	The are the story of America.
0:59.6	This is the 1619 project.
1:03.3	And you can't tell the story of the 1619 project without telling the story of its creator.
1:09.8	I'm Deborah Adam Simmons, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at National Geographic,
1:15.9	and you're listening to Overheard, a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations
1:20.4	we have here at Nat Geo and follow them to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world.
1:26.8	Recently, I, along with National Geographic history resident Jordan Salama, caught up with
1:32.4	Nicole Hannah Jones.
1:34.0	Her work on the 1619 project landed her at the center of a cultural moment.
1:39.1	She'll tell us what it was like to be the messenger of that moment, the good and the bad.
1:44.8	More after the break.
1:46.0	Feel your curiosity with a free one month trial subscription to Nat Geo Digital.
1:51.6	You'll have unlimited access on any device anywhere.
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