![]() ![]() ![]() Contrary to claims from the political right, the purpose of the series was never to literally demand that “1776” be erased as a landmark, nor to make every white person feel like the villain in our collective narrative. In this medium, the game was already changed - showrunner Shoshana Guy worked on Netflix’s High on the Hog, another probably superior predecessor - and The 1619 Project is just a participant.įor those who missed out, the premise of the series is that the arrival of the first slave ship in the colonies is a national origin story of sorts. ![]() On the page, The 1619 Project cast a long intellectual shadow, but on TV it’s in the shadow cast by Raoul Peck’s pugnacious Exterminate All the Brutes, by Sophia Nahli Allison’s lyrical E yes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground, by several shows from print transplant Sacha Jenkins ( Everything’s Gonna Be All White) and by more PBS documentaries than I care to count. Discovery Deal Sends Max Series, DC and 'Harry Potter' Universe to Canada's Bell Media ![]()
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