Image A middle school student in Washington, D.C., submitted artwork inspired by the essay "The Idea of America,” by Nikole ...

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 ...

Oprah Winfrey and Lionsgate are partnering with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to adapt The New York Times' 1619 Project for film and television. Lionsgate said Wednesday that ...

Peninsula native and renowned historian Calvin Pearson, who friends describe as a huge force in educating Hampton Roads on the history of enslaved Africans, died last week at 73. Pearson is the ...

Thais Perkins is the owner of Reverie Books in Austin, Texas, and the parent of a middle school student and high school student. Among the books she is eager to have in her store, and in the schools, ...

Nikole Hannah Jones, creator of "The 1619 Project," will be Earlham College's second annual Presidential Lecture Series speaker. The lecture is Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Goddard Auditorium ...

TV should provide more for Black History Month than videos of the latest police murders of unarmed Black people and the gutting funerals that follow, like the Tyre Nichols funeral which PBS has on ...

Friday on the RCP Podcast, Andrew Walworth spoke to economic historian Phillip W. Magness about his new book: "The 1619 Project Myth" "They claim American economic development in the 19th century was ...