Historians slam NYT's '1619 Project' saying it contains inaccuracies and misleading material about slavery history - but the editor pushes back and says it was well-researched

• Five historians wrote to the New York Times last week asking them to issue corrections for its 1619 Project 

 

• The project is a Times Magazine special issue published in August about the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans to be brought to the U.S.

 

• The historians have argued that certain elements contained in the project are inaccurate or unfair

 

• In response to their letter, Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein said he stood by their reporting 

 

• He also issued a lengthy rebuttal to the arguments made the historians 

 

 

SOURCE

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7822121/Historians-slam-NYTs-1619-Project-demand-corrections.html