Slavery in America: Behind USA TODAY’s 1619 series on black history Black history 1619 project: Call our Google number, share your story 1619 landing: 400 years ago, a ship arrived in Virginia ...

In August 1619, a pirate ship, the White Lion, stopped at Jamestown and traded 20-some captive Africans for food. The Africans were treated as indentured servants and soon released. Fifteen months … ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the ...

Creator of the 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones, 45, stirred up controversy on Twitter Monday when she claimed in a since-deleted tweet that 'tipping is a legacy of slavery.' ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones went on Twitter Monday night to respond to our issue looking at American slavery and the 1619 Project. Those familiar with how she typically responds to engagement with her ...

A presidential proclamation in March decried "the damaging legacy of slavery," while another, on June 1, lamented the "unconscionable hardships of slavery." On June 17, Biden signed into law the ...

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton wants to pass a law blocking schools from teaching the New York Times’ 1619 Project, a Pulitzer-winning initiative aiming to re-examine the nation’s founding ...

According to Nikole Hannah-Jones's myth , U.S. history didn’t really begin until August 1619, when about 20 slaves were sold to the governor of the Virginia ;colony by a British privateer.

In response, the project's creator and lead editor, Nikole Hannah-Jones, came to insist that talk of 1619 as the country's "true founding" had always been "metaphoric." Accordingly, the ...

The installment of the “Proud Family” series — in which the kids find out the founder of their town was a slave owner — is a cartoon version of the 1619 Project, although the 1619 Project ...

"I'm at a point where I realize all the attacks just made the project grow and expanded its reach,” says Nikole Hannah-Jones of her "1619 Project," which connects the beginnings of slavery in ...

Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.