Peabody Award-winning executive producer Shoshana Guy served as the showrunner.

It was executive produced by Nikole Hannah-Jones Academy Award®-winning director Roger Ross Williams Caitlin Roper, an editor of “The 1619 Project” and The New York Times’s executive producer for film and television Kathleen Lingo, The New York Times’s editorial director for film and television and Oprah Winfrey. The series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, is a Lionsgate Production in association with One Story Up Productions, Harpo Films and The New York Times. 1 best-selling “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” and examine how the legacy of slavery shapes different aspects of contemporary American life. The episodes - “Democracy,” “Race,” “Music,” “Capitalism,” “Fear” and “Justice” - are adapted from essays from The New York Times No.

In keeping with the original project, the series seeks to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. The limited series will debut with the first two episodes streaming exclusively on Hulu, with two additional episodes released every Thursday. 26 premiere date for Hulu’s upcoming six-part limited docu-series “The 1619 Project,” an expansion of “The 1619 Project” created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine. Today, Disney’s Onyx Collective announced a Jan.

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