Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how examining plantation records and market prices deepens our understanding of a devastating chapter in American history. When America celebrates its 250th ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It started with a simple fact: “The first group of enslaved Africans were brought here over 400 years ago ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students at Eastern Senior High School in Washington reflected on the 1619 Project. "The 1619 Project," a six-part documentary ...

Opinion: The 1776 Project Rejects U.S. 'Slavocracy' Claims Upward Mobility: The New York Times's 1619 Project isn’t about black history. It’s about today’s racial disparities and applying current ...

The “history wars” have heated up as more schools debate whether America’s founding goes back to Independence Day in 1776 or to the first Africans facing slavery in 1619 Virginia. A growing number of ...

Even when the award-winning “1619 Project” was just the seed of an idea, Nikole Hannah-Jones knew the immensity of her endeavor. The ambitious set of essays first published by The New York Times in ...

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 ...