A New York Times reporter who spearheaded a popular magazine project that remembers the 400-year anniversary of American slavery on Wednesday responded to a conservative critic who called the effort “embarrassing” and “factually false.” In response to former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s Aug. 18 comments on Fox News, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones told a Detroit … Continue reading New York Times’ ‘1619 Project’ on the history of slavery comes to Detroit