Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times newsroom, praised the 1619 Project in a memo Tuesday, becoming the second executive to do so in recent days, after long-time NYT columnist Brett Stephens wrote an Op-ed sharply critical of the project.
Calling the 1619 project “one of the most important pieces of journalism” published under his tenure as executive editor, Baquet praised the project for sparking conversation about “race and history” and a “new framework and a new critical date” for understanding the nation’s past.
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