The 1619 Project

It succeeds both technically and as a piece of art, skillfully weaving shots of Black Americans with firsthand accounts, explanations, interviews and stories that have been consistently omitted from the historical record.

Whether you’ve read Hannah-Jones’ work or are coming to it for the first time, The 1619 Project is a fascinating look at the Black population’s significant contributions to the building of the U.S., with a nuanced approach that was never in our U.S. History books.

Each episode of “The 1619 Project” feels like a conversation as well as a collection of personal essays. It is an educational memoir of Black America.

Anyone who follows the news will be familiar with many issues the series addresses, which makes some episodes feel a bit remedial. But at its best, The 1619 Project makes astute—and highly personal—connections between the antebellum and pre-civil-rights past, and a present in which Black Americans still disproportionately face police violence, workplace exploitation, and other forms of inequality.

As constructed, it certainly doesn’t lack for ambition, which as a TV production turns out to be a source of weakness as well as its strength, even among those willing to hear it.

Hannah-Jones’ skill with interview subjects and her deftness at drawing small but crucial connections are both so strong that I came to yearn for her to craft a narrative less sweeping — to capture America, for a moment longer, through any of the individual threads she so ably pursues, without the obligation of trying to fit it all within a worthy but increasingly massive project.

Hulu’s The 1619 Project remains cogent, smartly argued and persuasive, but in failing to sufficiently adjust its storytelling to the visual demands and possibilities of TV, it fails to make itself essential. ... In this medium, the game was already changed — showrunner Shoshanah Guy worked on Netflix’s High on the Hog, another probably superior predecessor — and The 1619 Project is just a participant.

The camera work is good, so I couldn't give it a zero. However the openly revisionist history means this documentary is anything but truth, it is, in its own words "reframing history." Well, history shouldn't be in any frame. We should objectively look at all angles, and all historical documents. Reframing history to some ugly end with the goal of dividing us is repugnant.

I'm cancelling my Hulu account since they produced this. I was watching for a few episodes, expecting there to be some kind of shift, where they would step back, and explain everything in context. This never happened. I started to feel sick, as I realized I was watching something really unbalanced, and frankly, crazy. Hate mongering, pure and simple.

Wildly inappropriate. Really awful stuff. I can't believe this was produced by a major streaming service. What a shame.

Biggest piece of propaganda made since Mein Kampf. Ignores common sense and actual history, complete victim bias. Don't waste your time

Can we stop dividing our country with the revisionist history BS? This show is the drizzlin’