The 1619 Project was released in August 2019 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to the English colonies.

The project consisted of dedicating the entire August issue of the New York Times Magazine to a re-examination of the legacy of slavery in America.

The Times plans to take the 1619 Project to schools in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center. There are free lesson plans on their website.

The project has received lots of criticism due to inaccurate information including from a lot of historians. Many journalists appreciated the goal worthy project, but recognized the scholarship was poor.

Ellen McGirt at Fortune said “A dramatic and necessary corrective to the fundamental lie of the American origin story.”