Only a few weeks after the death of Project 1619 founder and President Calvin Pearson, his successor — William Wiggins — has also died. Wiggins — who was a historian, scholar and cofounder of Project ...
Its scholarly claims have faltered, yet its reputation has thrived in the universities because academic elites set aside their own expertise to promote its political narrative. In many respects, the ...
“Everybody that thought about the 1619 Project … saw that the Smithsonian had fingerprints on it,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III once said with pride—a curious boast given the project’s many ...
Nikole Hannah-Jones responds to the controversy around her work. When "The 1619 Project" debuted two years ago as a special issue of The New York Times magazine, it both gained critical acclaim and ...
Armed members of the West Virginia National Guard are positioned across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. [AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.] Six years ago this month, on August ...