As a child, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones didn't hear much in school about the role of Black people in U.S. history. "Black people are largely treated as an asterisk in the American story," she says.

Nikole Hannah-Jones wants to reframe the way we perceive American history. “Our political, cultural, legal, educational systems can be traced back to slavery and the anti-Blackness that grew from it, ...

Editor's note: This column reflects on "The 1619 Project" published by The New York Times. Reviewing this project before reading this column is recommended. For the second time in February, I found ...

Thais Perkins is the owner of Reverie Books in Austin, Texas, and the parent of a middle school student and high school student. Among the books she is eager to have in her store, and in the schools, ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones signs copies of her new book, “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,” before taking the stage at a book club event in Los Angeles in ...

TV should provide more for Black History Month than videos of the latest police murders of unarmed Black people and the gutting funerals that follow, like the Tyre Nichols funeral which PBS has on ...

Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate are partnering with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to adapt The New York Times' 1619 Project for film and television. Lionsgate said Wednesday that ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It started with a simple fact: “The first group of enslaved Africans were brought here over 400 years ago ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones shouted out her "haters" after "The 1619 Project" won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. On Sunday, executive producers Jones, along with Oprah ...

An educational program that challenges the way students think and learn about slavery in the U.S. continues to create controversy, both nationally and in North Carolina. The 1619 Project was created ...

With Juneteenth this week Sacramento has parties, marches and more in celebration. This Wednesday, the California Black Agricultural Working Group will host a celebration at the Capitol State Park as ...