There’s a segment of America that won’t deign to watch “The 1619 Project,” the six-part Hulu series that began Thursday and brings Nikole Hannah-Jones’ 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece to the screen. It’s a shame that so many Americans will refuse to watch this documentary from Hannah-Jones, a journalist with The New York Times Magazine, given the masterly curation of interviews, videos, photos and music that expands on her contention that our nation’s true founding occurred in 1619 when enslaved Africans landed in colonial America.
It is a masterly retelling of American history that, in a fair world, would be just as impactful on our image of ourselves as Americans as any documentary from Ken Burns.
“The 1619 Project” doesn’t have the gravitas of “Eyes on the Prize,” the award-winning 1987 documentary series about the civil rights movement, and it won’t grip the country the way the “Roots” miniseries did in 1977. But it is a masterly retelling of…
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