Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project
Oprah's Super Soul
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Wesley Norris and the New York Times
"This was the most important but also painful work I've ever done to spend months and months and now years just immersed in the barbarism and brutality pain of what black Americans have experienced," she says. "We weren't going to worry about if people were turned off by it or upset by it ... We were going to tell this story the way we felt we needed to tell it." The New York Times dedicated an entire issue of the magazine to excavating the legacy of slavery.
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