Oprah To Tackle “1619 Project”
Good news! Oprah Winfrey, The New York Times and Lionsgate are partnering on a series of feature films and television shows based on “The 1619 Project.†The collaboration was announced Wednesday, nearly a year after the Times debuted “The 1619 Project†series to re-examine the legacy of slavery in the United States on the 400th anniversary of the first Africans’ arrival in Virginia. Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was the architect of the series, won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
