The awarding of a Pulitzer Prize for commentary to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in The New York Times Magazine’s “The 1619 Project” comes on the heels of the severe criticism that has been heaped on the project by at least two groups of American historians, by African American activists (led by Robert Woodson and the 1776 Initiative), and by numerous other academics and journalists (among them Cathy Young, Phillip Magness, John McWhorter, and Lucas Morel).
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1981: Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke receives a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an eight-yea.