![]() ![]() That tries to tell Black people that we haven't contributed much to this society, that we haven't resisted, that we don't have a foundational role." "It is a version that tries to keep us complacent. "We’ve been taught a very narrow version of American history," says Hannah-Jones. ![]() That was the year the first enslaved African people arrived at the British colony of Virginia, a part of history that Hannah-Jones learned from a book given to her by a high school teacher - outside of class. In her book, "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story," creator and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones asks readers to reconsider the origin story of America: one that did not start with the Declaration of Independence, but earlier, in the year 1619. ![]()
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