"That One Sentence About the Role of Slavery in the Founding of the United States Has Ended Up at the Center of a Debate Over the Whole Project"

"Both sets of inaccuracies worried me, but the Revolutionary War statement made me especially anxious. Overall, the 1619 Project is a much-needed corrective to the blindly celebratory histories that once dominated our understanding of the past—histories that wrongly suggested racism and slavery were not a central part of U.S. history. I was concerned that critics would use the overstated claim to discredit the entire undertaking. So far, that's exactly what has happened."

Leslie M. Harris at Politico discusses her interaction with The New York Times and its 1619 Project.