Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The 1619 Project set out to challenge historical narratives and reframe U.S. history by examining the 400-year legacy of slavery —and by making explicit how slavery is the foundation on which the country is built. The project drew tremendous praise as well as strong criticism from some historians and political leaders. It also set off a national discourse about the role of slavery in shaping modern America and amplified the contributions of Black Americans.
The 1619 Project was a launchpad for my being at Howard. It was important when this project became so politicized…to not just go to Howard and secure my own position, but to use that moment to create something much bigger; to ensure that other 1619-like projects and works, and reporting could go into the world because we will be training Black journalists to do historically informed investigative reporting.
Students at the high school and college level are like, "This book means so much to me. I'm realizing everything I wasn't taught, and I want to learn more because this is just the tip of the iceberg." And Black students, in particular, find themselves affirmed as agents in the American story—not just people who have been acted upon, not just people who've been oppressed—but agents who are driving the American story, that has been transformative for a lot of students.
And what's beautiful is that this project allows me to introduce the work to regular people, whether they be students or my uncle who works at the John Deere plant in Waterloo. Our world is so small when it comes to Black folks. We don't even know there's all this history that we can learn because we think if it existed, someone would teach it to us or movies would reflect it, or we'd have our monuments. And that really is the power for students. I teach a 1619 class, and all the students had to write their own 1619 essays. They had to pick a subject that wasn't in the book and show how this modern America phenomenon has been shaped.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/1...A16H8hP?cvid=17acc9f6a47f44848dad9d72954db6b0
The 1619 Project was a launchpad for my being at Howard. It was important when this project became so politicized…to not just go to Howard and secure my own position, but to use that moment to create something much bigger; to ensure that other 1619-like projects and works, and reporting could go into the world because we will be training Black journalists to do historically informed investigative reporting.
Students at the high school and college level are like, "This book means so much to me. I'm realizing everything I wasn't taught, and I want to learn more because this is just the tip of the iceberg." And Black students, in particular, find themselves affirmed as agents in the American story—not just people who have been acted upon, not just people who've been oppressed—but agents who are driving the American story, that has been transformative for a lot of students.
And what's beautiful is that this project allows me to introduce the work to regular people, whether they be students or my uncle who works at the John Deere plant in Waterloo. Our world is so small when it comes to Black folks. We don't even know there's all this history that we can learn because we think if it existed, someone would teach it to us or movies would reflect it, or we'd have our monuments. And that really is the power for students. I teach a 1619 class, and all the students had to write their own 1619 essays. They had to pick a subject that wasn't in the book and show how this modern America phenomenon has been shaped.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/1...A16H8hP?cvid=17acc9f6a47f44848dad9d72954db6b0