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The 1619 Project is an American documentary television miniseries created for Hulu.It is adapted from The 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine journalism project focusing on slavery in the United States, which was later turned into the anthology The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.
The series is told from the point of view of Henry "Onion" Shackleford (Joshua Caleb Johnson), a fictional enslaved boy, who is part of John Brown 's (Ethan Hawke) motley crew of abolitionist soldiers during the time of Bleeding Kansas, eventually participating in the famous 1859 raid on the Federal Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia).
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The Smithsonian Channel has shared a clip promoting “One Thousand Years of Slavery,” a new docuseries that aims to tell the global story of slavery. The four-part series features interviews ...
Enslaved is a British-Canadian television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. [1] The series explores various aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through DNA testing, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks in which at least two million African people captured ...
Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an 18th-century Mandinka man who is enslaved and shipped from the Gambia to the Colony of Virginia and his descendants.
In his new coming-of-age Netflix series, "Colin in Black & White," former NFL quarterback-turned-civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick is running deep into controversy.