Polarizing ‘The 1619 Project’, Attacked By Conservatives, Earns Emmy Win For Oprah, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Roger Ross Williams & More
08.01.2024 - 06:11
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The 1619 Project, which has been praised for reframing our understanding of American history but attacked by conservatives who brand it as “woke-ism,” won the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series Emmy on Sunday at the Creative Arts ceremony.
Executive producers Oprah Winfrey, Roger Ross Williams, Shoshanna Guy, the New York Times’ Kathleen Lingo and Nikole Hannah-Jones are among those who earned trophies for their work on the six-part Hulu series. Hannah-Jones, who hosts the series, created the original 1619 Project for the Times to mark the 400-year anniversary of the first arrival of African captives on the shores of what would become the United States. The Pulitzer Prize-winning project aimed to place “the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United States’ national narrative,” according to the newspaper.
In 2020, then-President Trump condemned the series as “toxic propaganda and ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together, will destroy our country.” In response to it, he signed an executive order to create a 1776 Commission that would promote “patriotic education.” The State of Florida, meanwhile, banned teaching of The 1619 Project in classrooms. In July 2023, Florida’s State Board of Education approved new standards under which students are taught that slavery benefited some Black people because it allowed them to acquire “useful skills.”
“When you look at this effort to really explicitly sanitize the history of slavery,” Hannah-Jones told Deadline last August, “it is because of a pushback against The 1619 Project and so many of the texts it was based upon that are offering a counter narrative to the
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