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The cinematic adaptation of The 1619 Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times essay series that accelerated the vociferous debate over Critical Race Theory, makes its debut on Hulu tonight. If history is a guide – and that’s what the whole series is about – the documentary series will prove as polarizing as the original version.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect of the Times’ project, serves as the guiding presence in the series, which aims at nothing less than reframing “the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United States’ national narrative,” as the newspaper put it when The 1619 Project reached readers in August 2019.
The journalist and now university professor’s opening essay for the Times’ initiative became the basis for episode 1 of the six-part series.
“We wanted from the very beginning to subvert this idea about American democracy and the way that we tend to think about Black contributions [to it],” Hannah-Jones tells Deadline. “We kind of acknowledge that our brute labor contributed something to the economy of this country. But, of course, we’re arguing [in the series] that our greatest contribution is democracy itself, and how might you think about Black people differently if you understood that one basic fact. That’s the argument that sets up the entire series.”
Adds showrunner Shoshana Guy, “[It’s] this idea of ‘America, the land of the free.’ But who is actually fighting for that freedom? We’re unpacking that and trying to really fit those pieces together — and it can be complicated to try to unpack, particularly in this medium, but I hope that people make those connections.”
The first two episodes of the
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