The 1619 Project (in the New York Times Magazine)

[Amy L.]

I've read maybe a half-dozen articles on the demise of Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 Project. 

I rather like this one, from the NYT itself (Oct 9, 2020):  
"If there’s one word admirers and critics alike can agree on when it comes to The New York Times’s award-winning 1619 Project, it’s ambition. Ambition to reframe America’s conversation about race. Ambition to reframe our understanding of history. Ambition to move from news pages to classrooms. Ambition to move from scholarly debate to national consciousness."
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"None of this should have come as a surprise: The 1619 Project is a thesis in search of evidence, not the other way around. Nor was this fire from the right: Both Wilentz and Harris were at pains to emphasize their sympathy with the project’s moral aims." 
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" All the more so as journalists, in the United States and abroad, come under relentless political assault from critics who accuse us of being fake, biased, partisan and an arm of the radical left. Many of these attacks are baseless. Some of them are not. Through its overreach, the 1619 Project has given critics of The Times a gift."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opini...cisms.html