An introduction by the editor of the New York Times Magazine, Jake Silverstein, explained, “The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year. It takes its name from the year of arrival in Virginia of a ship carrying African slaves. The 1619 Project was, and is, sprawling and ambitious. The 1619 Project is certainly educational, or at least instructive-but not only in the ways it was intended. “Educators around the country” are indeed “teaching The 1619 Project.” What, precisely, students and other interested observers are learning is another question. Given all the theatrics that have attended the article’s publication, it’s possible that the most appropriate award the Pulitzer Board could have chosen to honor The 1619 Project or Hannah-Jones with would have been the prize for drama. That the Pulitzer was for “commentary” rather than history, national reporting, or some other more empirically anchored category generated some amusement in competing newsrooms. 14, and the magazine issue gained public attention immediately, with copies selling out and educators around the country teaching The 1619 Project.” When New York Times correspondent Nikole Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for an article she published about blacks and the ideal of America, her own newspaper reported, “The essay was published on Aug.
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