1619 project

2019 project by the New York Times on the history of slavery
Intangible project Q66438352
1619 project
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1619 project

Summary

1619 project is a project[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of project entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,215 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 1619 project is the creator of Dean Baquet[3].
  • 1619 project is the creator of Nikole Hannah-Jones[4].
  • 1619 project is in the country of United States[5].
  • 1619 project's instance of is recorded as project[6].
  • 1619 project's instance of is recorded as news article[7].
  • 1619 project's genre is long-form journalism[8].
  • 1619 is named after 1619 project[9].
  • 1619 project's collection is recorded as The New York Times Company[10].
  • The location of 1619 project was New York City[11].
  • 1619 project's Commons category is recorded as 1619 project[12].
  • 1619 project's language of work or name is recorded as American English[13].
  • 1619 project comprises America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It One[14].
  • 1619 project comprises American Capitalism is Brutal. You can trace that back to the Plantation[15].
  • 1619 project comprises Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery — and are still believed by doctors today[16].
  • 1619 project comprises America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others[17].
  • 1619 project comprises For centuries, black music has been the sound of artistic freedom. No wonder everybody’s always stealing it[18].
  • 1619 project comprises What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot[19].
  • 1619 project comprises Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our prison system[20].
  • 1619 project comprises The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery[21].
  • 1619 project comprises A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America[22].
  • 1619 project comprises Their ancestors were enslaved by law. Today, they are graduates of the nation’s preeminent historically black law school[23].
  • 1619 project's commemorates is recorded as First Africans in Virginia[24].
  • 2019 marks the founding of 1619 project[25].
  • 1619 project was published on August 2019[26].
  • Among those involved in 1619 project was Eve Ewing[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include project[6] and news article[7].

Origins

1619 is named after 1619 project[9]. 2019 marks the founding of it[25].

Use and Application

Components include America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It One[14], American Capitalism is Brutal. You can trace that back to the Plantation[15], Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery — and are still believed by doctors today[16], America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others[17], For centuries, black music has been the sound of artistic freedom. No wonder everybody’s always stealing it[18], and What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot[19].

Why It Matters

1619 project ranks in the top 3% of project entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,215 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · William Avery Bot bot · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619, https://1619education.org/
    Published in The New York Times
    Publication date +2019-08-00T00:00:00Z
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:1||1 */ [[Property:P973]]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191221051513/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/letter-to-the-editor-historians-critique-the-1619-project-and-we-"
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