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“The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.” (New York Times)

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COLLINGSWOOD – Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project, paid a visit here on July 9 at a crowded Scottish Rite Auditorium. The colorful owner of Ida’s Bookshop, Jeannine A. Cook, planned a “birthday party” of sorts for Ida B. Wells, the legendary journalist and civil rights activist who was born July 16, 1862. The celebration, which also marked the

The dissenting historians are performing an important public service by making the dishonesty of The New York Times Magazine’s feature a matter of record. The reviews of the 1619 Project are in.

It is “a very unbalanced, one-sided account.” It is “wrong in so many ways.” It is “not only ahistorical,” but “actually anti-historical.” It is “a tendentious and partial reading of American

The history of the American Revolution isn’t the only thing the New York Times is revising through its 1619 Project. The “paper of record” has also taken to quietly altering the published text of the project itself after one of its claims came under intense criticism.

When the 1619 Project went to print in August 2019 as a special edition of the New York Times Magazine, the newspaper