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Oprah speaks with Nikole Hannah-Jones about her New York Times bestselling book The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine from August of 2019. In the book’s collection of essays, Jones along with a variety of esteemed authors, journalists, historians, and poets share how the inception of enslavement in America in 1619 reaches into every part of American society up to present day. Nikole Hannah-Jones shares her thoughts on how the resistance efforts of Black Americans have always strived to hold our country accountable to the ideals of the Constitution.
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