Oprah Winfrey Teams Up With Nikole Hannah-Jones To Bring 'The 1619 Project' To Hollywood
The New York Times to help produce and develop Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’ investigative interactive series, The 1619 Project and the NYT podcast, 1619, into an expansive portfolio of films, television series and documentaries, unscripted programming and other forms of entertainment, an official press release announced Wednesday.The 1619 Project—which was originally released by The New York Times in August 2019, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first arrival of Africans in the colony of Virginia in 1619—is a critically acclaimed series of well-researched essays that re-examines the transatlantic slave trade, slavery and its roots to modern-day racism.“We took very seriously our duty to find TV and film