roberts sat down with the woman behind it all, pulitzer prize-winning journalist and educator nikole hannah-jonesi feel anxious. you never know how something will go out into the world. but i know how hard we worked on it. >> reporter: pulitzer prize-winner nikole hannah-jones back with her most ambitious project yet. >> as a woman in my 40s, i'm the first generation to be born in society in which black people have full rights and citizenship. >> reporter: adapted from her landmark "new york times" magazine anthology and best-selling book "the 1619 project." >> the very first enslaved africans were brought here over 400 years ago. since then no part of america's story has been untouched by the legacy of slavery. >> you feel in all aspects in america, who we are, it can be traced back and has the remnants of slavery? do you think that's something that people will understand with this series? >> absolutely. i mean, that is what the series argues. so it's not just a historical documentary. it's actually a documentary about contemporary society. >> reporter: premiering at a time when heated debates a

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when talking to, i got nikole hannah-jones coming back, she was how we kicked off our banned book club nicole had jones told the story, to 19 project told a story about a date in a time that many americans didn't know about. it was just adding to the body of history, the corpus of our history. everybody went nuts. everyone is -- >> be specific. who went nuts? >> yes, so the hour, erin, is not ours. it is somebody's. >> oh yes, absolutely. you saw conservatives, many white lawmakers who felt threatened by the 16 19 project, which by the way, if that is something that folks are not getting access to that history in the classroom, it's currently on hulu. in documentary form, for six episodes. people will continue to get this knowledge, if they're seeking. at this is somewhat ironic given that there was an attempt to ban the 1619 project of the book, as a piece of pulitzer prize-winning journalism by lawmakers of the state, and even federal level. president trump 1776 project, -- biden issued an executive order shutting down his first week, if not his first day in office. listen, the reali

we also have pulitzer prize -winning nikole hannah-jones, great of the 16 19 project, who has stuck aroundracial healing can feel abstract, i think, to some. but in your case, you were 14 years old, undergoing just tremendous trauma. what has it meant for you just, in your life? >> i think it has meant that i did not want any other kids -- no matter who they were, no matter what color -- for that to happen again. and i think that's what i've done as much as i've could with my life. i teach nonviolence and interact with kids as often as i can. i have great conversations in different parts of the world as well as the u.s.. but i just wanted to pick up on the last section and say, what is it that everybody thinks that this stuff is new? this is not new. japanese incarceration -- of course, you talked on chinese exclusion, indigenous genocide, just a whole hatred -- i keep people hearing people talk about death threats. really? death threats? constant. that is the game to try to scare people out of whatever it is they are doing. and i have a story about my three-year-old brother answering the

if you do, you can see the way that people across the country, someone like nikole hannah-jones or ibram kendi, if you look on twitter and you just see how people you know, come for them daily and other people to write who come for people daily people are afraid. they're to do that. you know, over the years, i've often wondered and i see a lot of tenured faculty who are afraid. i think part of it is they they don't want to rock the boat. they don't want to not get a raise. they don't want to i know lots of people don't want i was listening to a book on audible other day and talking about kind of what our fears are in general in life and it was talking about how most people are afraid of being embarrassed in public like having kind of public embarrassment. and so they're afraid of those kinds of things, afraid of people not liking them. a lot of people want to be liked faculty and so they don't speak up. so that's one reason. another reason is sometimes people i think it's a little bit more pervasive and that is that people, they don't really want the status quo to change because it benef

nikole hannah-jones, who also made history recently ends by saying here lies the work of a woman who's at whose destiny would be both to chronicle history and to make it that she. charlayne, let's begin our conversation with your sharing what you would consider the most important impactful memory about aspects of your essay ordinary personal journey which began right here in georgia of course, even before historic desegregation of the university of georgia with. your conrad hamilton holmes. now you asked me a question that i'm supposed to remember that because now 80. okay and i was telling dr. gayl on the way over here there's so many things i don't even remember how i started this book, but i'm thinking about your life. yeah. no, i understand. i just wanted tell everybody that i might not remember everything, but georgia, covington, georgia, where i spent the first six years. i was six years old. i think maybe a little bit older when we moved to new atlanta and those were the days of segregation and the majority, the rulers, shall we say, had attempted to not only legally make us sec

remember from the piece we read about the 1619 projecthaone of the most controversial claims, nikole hannah-jones made in the oning was that one of the reasons the colonies fought the revolutionary war was to uphold slavery, and in respseo a request signed some prominent historians. you had the new york times kind of clarifyg e stent to say that some of the colonists fought the revolutionary war to uphold slavery. no part of the reason this claim was controversial herschel is because it's matter of interpretations th n all history ends agree upon. so some who hannah-jones was rely building othk the colonists in this period were very worried about the british reening the system chattel slavery in the colonies or atmpting to turn enslaved people against them in any kind of struggle that they might have noyohave other historians who who kind of argue the colonists, elite colonists were not necessarily that worried about this the time a lot of the debate over this and how a role this is playing or how of mind this is for early colonists centers on british court ruling that's issued. 1772 referred to

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critics are calling out how lieu and disney for new 1619 series narrated by nikole hannah-jones.g subscriptions calling hulu out of touch historians have blasted as fake history. pointing to ache laugh facts and dishonesty with some even calling it unbearable. and those are your headlines, guys, back to you. >> steve: all right, ashley, thank you so much. >> brian: hulu making waves with that talk about what is happening two weeks super bowl. and we're kind of sold out behind us. first off, we saw brock burdeny, he was one of the great stories of this nfl season. drafted 264th overall. >> steve: last guy. >> brian: comes in off the bench from wearing street clothes to being undefeated. turns out he was not only knocked out of the game, he tore his ucl, his ulnar nerve. he hopes to be ready by training camp. it's hard to imagine he went back in. >> is he going to have to undergo surgery and explains why he couldn't throw that ball beyond a few yards from sunday's game. >> steve: heart breaking. >> hoping to undergo repair instead of reconstruction. he will be back in six months ju

nikole hannah-jones and her work inspired the velshi banned book club.versary. do not miss this special meeting of the benbow cloud. saturday, february 4th. 9:40 a.m.. tell us what you want in the bulk of. my story is velshi.com. we are gonna involve this thing over the next year. that's it for me. thanks for watching. ks for watching. don't forget the velshi is available on a podcast. listen on the go at anytime. i wear that mask when i do the podcast. subscriber list for free wherever you get your podcasts. where you are. lindsey reiser picks up the coverage right now. ight now good morning, welcome. i am lindsey reiser in new york. we are following breaking news overnight of protests happening across america. that is following the release of this -- an encounter with man finish please resolve it in the death of a 29 year old black man. it all began with a police stop. that suspicious of reckless driving. he was not home for dinner during his breakout wo