Hulu to Launch New Series Based Upon Rejected 1619 Task

The historically debunked Pulitzer Prize-winning series penned by New York City Times Publication press reporter and activist Nikole Hannah-Jones is being adjusted into the docuseries by Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams.

The docuseries is being launched in collaboration with Lionsgate Tv, The New York City Times, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and will make its streaming launching on Hulu “as part of a distribution agreement between Lionsgate and Disney General Entertainment Content’s BIPOC Creator Initiative” according to a statement from the streaming business. According to Deadline, Shoshana Person, an Emmy candidate, and Peabody award winner will sign up with the series as a showrunner.

Williams stated, “‘The 1619 Project’ is an essential reframing of American history. Our most cherished ideals and achievements cannot be understood without acknowledging both systemic racism and the contributions of Black Americans. And this isn’t just about the past—Black people are still fighting against both the legacy of this racism and its current incarnation. I am thrilled and grateful for the opportunity to work with The New York Times, Lionsgate Television, Harpo Films, and Hulu to translate the incredibly important ‘The 1619 Project’ into a documentary series.”

Hannah-Jones mentioned, “I could not ask for a more gifted and committed storyteller to entrust ‘The 1619 Project’ to than Roger Ross Williams. I have long admired the impact and authenticity of his filmmaking, and the fact that we’re working with Disney and Hulu aligns with our vision of partnering with the world’s greatest Black storytellers to bring this project to a global audience.”

Hannah-Jones composed the function in 2019 to honor the 400th anniversary of the very first African servants getting here in colonial Virginia, intending 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.”

Nevertheless, the “1619 Project” was knocked by historians as being incorrect and for pressing a deceptive story about slavery’s function in the American Transformation.

Civil liberties figure Robert Woodson called the piece, “one of the most diabolical, self-destructive ideas that I’ve ever heard.”

The series was even slammed by Hannah-Jones’ associate, New york city Times writer and colleague of Hannah-Jones Bret Stephens stated of the task in 2015, “Journalists are, most often, in the business of writing the first rough draft of history, not trying to have the last word on it. We are best when we try to tell truths with a lowercase t, following evidence in directions unseen, not the capital-T truth of a pre-established narrative in which inconvenient facts get discarded. And we’re supposed to report and comment on the political and cultural issues of the day, not become the issue itself. As fresh concerns make clear, on these points — and for all of its virtues, buzz, spinoffs, and a Pulitzer Prize — the 1619 Project has failed.”