There have been shoddily produced attempts at rejoinders to "The 1619 Project" in the form of the Trump Administration's "1776 Project" and a committee dedicated to creating a "patriotic" telling of Texas history dubbed the 1836 Project. The Critical Race Theory canard is sold to justify the excision of Black history from school curriculums and criminalizing its teaching in the most basic sense, as Florida Gov. That it did, powerfully enough to set in motion a right-wing backlash that's still reverberating through state legislatures and school districts. The project's goal was to invite a reconsideration of the United States' legacy of slavery on the 400th anniversary of the first time enslaved Africans set foot on Virginian soil. In 2021 she became Howard University's inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. She's referring to the question of whether she had an inkling as to how people would react to it – not the gargantuan cultural impact its essays, fiction, poetry and photographs would eventually have. "The 1619 Project" earned Hannah-Jones a Pulitzer Prize for her essay on democracy, the work's foundational text. The night before was unforgettable for its creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, who admitted to Salon, "I was a complete mess. The New York Times Magazine issue that published the first edition of " The 1619 Project" came out on a Wednesday – August 14, 2019.
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