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Nikole hannah jones on the 1619 project
Nikole hannah jones on the 1619 project





nikole hannah jones on the 1619 project nikole hannah jones on the 1619 project nikole hannah jones on the 1619 project

We're really trying to change the way that Americans are thinking that this was just a problem of the past that we've resolved and show that it isn't. We have a story about why we're the only Western industrial country without universal health care, about why Americans consume so much sugar, about capitalism, about democracy. And so we have a story in there about traffic patterns. The conceit of the magazine is that one of things we hear all the time is, well that was in the past why do you have to keep talking about the past? Well, one, I think the past is clearly instructive for the future, for how we are right now, but also the conceit of the magazine is that you can look at all of these modern phenomenon that you think are unrelated to slavery at all and we are going to show you how they are.







Nikole hannah jones on the 1619 project