It also set off a national discourse about the role of slavery in shaping modern America and amplified the contributions of Black Americans. The project drew tremendous praise as well as strong criticism from some historians and political leaders. history by examining the 400-year legacy of slavery-and by making explicit how slavery is the foundation on which the country is built. The 1619 Project set out to challenge historical narratives and reframe U.S. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in what would become the United States, Hannah-Jones created an extensive project published in 2019 by The New York Times Magazine that excavated 1619-the year the first enslaved Africans landed on the shores of Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia, and were sold to colonists. Close ties to her community contributed to a thirst to share deeper knowledge of the American past and present, which places the enslavement of Africans at the center of the American story. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. As an 11-year-old, she wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper about a presidential primary. Nikole Hannah-Jones grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, where much of her family still lives.
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