Will the ‘1619 Project’ Spoil America’s Party?

Jason L. Riley, Wall Street Journal

Launched six years ago and led by reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, the project is a series of

articles that “aims to reframe the country’s history” in a way that makes slavery central to its founding and the animating feature of its rise. According to the paper, America’s “true founding” dates not to 1776 but rather to 1619, the year the first African slaves arrived in Virginia. Ms. Hannah-Jones’s profile on Twitter featured a banner graphic that showed the date “July 4, 1776,” crossed out and replaced with “August 20, 1619.”