„Benannt ist es nach dem Jahr, in dem erstmals Menschen aus Afrika als Sklaven nach Nordamerika gebracht wurden. Für ihre Arbeit an dem Projekt wurde Hannah-Jones mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnet.“ – sueddeutsche.de
„The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History“
„[O]r you could conclude that a republic founded on an irresolvable contradiction — freedom and slavery — was always going to wind up in an irresolvable argument over how to tell its story, that this contentiousness is American democracy, that the loss of consensus means we’ve finally arrived.“ – nytimes.com
A Book Full of Heart and Soul
„But let’s be clear: The 1619 Project is more than a single work of journalism. This month the 2019 magazine series has grown into an anthology, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, an expanded collection of essays along with photos, poems and short stories. The current voices curated — sociologists, historians, novelists — are among the most respected in their fields while the overall collection masterfully avoids reading like a disjointed textbook.“ – latimes.com
An Incomparable Jornalistic Project
„Seldom these days does a paper edition have such blockbuster draw. New Yorkers not in the habit of seeking out their Sunday Times ventured to bodegas to nab a hard copy. (Today you can find a copy on eBay for around a hundred dollars.) Commentators, such as the Vox correspondent Jamil Smith, lauded the Project—which consisted of eleven essays, nine poems, eight works of short fiction, and dozens of photographs, all documenting the long-fingered reach of American slavery—as an unprecedented journalistic feat.“ – newyorker.com
