![]() ![]() They want to wage war against anyone who dares to reveal America’s true history. These racially motivated jingoists have stirred The 1619 Project into the witches’ brew of grievance politics and created a screaming mob of frightened white people who fear that an open discussion of America’s history will take something away from them. Hannah-Jones has been subjected to foaming-at-the-mouth attacks by conservative politicians and right-wing pundits. Nikole Hannah-Jonesįor her effort and her scholarship and her truth telling, Ms. The 1619 Project sought only to do one thing – start an honest conversation about how toxic attitudes about race have shaped this nation’s past and made America the country it is today. ![]() This important and ambitious project, led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, pulled back the curtain of euphemistic rhetoric composing American historiography that points only to the good in our history and sweeps under the rug the evil deeds perpetrated against people of color for more than 400 years. ![]() Most folks in Black and brown communities have heard of The 1619 Project that was published by the New York Times Magazine in 2019. ![]()
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