The 1619 Project

Matt Roush says...

Nikole Hannah-Jones adapts her influential and controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning series of New York Times essays into a six-part docuseries (two episodes a week), revisiting American history through the lens of the Black experience from slavery through the civil rights movement and beyond. The series opens with personal reflections on “Democracy,” as Nikole remembers her father, an Army veteran with sharecropper roots who flew the flag outside his home as a proud patriot. “No people had a greater claim to the American flag than we do,” Nikole declares, as The 1619 Project (referencing the first arrival of enslaved Africans on the North American shores) reclaims embattled and often disenfranchised Black Americans as “perfectors of our democracy.”

What's Worth Watching (Jan 26)