Hulu picks up docuseries based on The 1619 Project from Nikole Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey

According to Deadline, Hulu is developing a documentary series based on The New York Times’ The 1619 Project, which was organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hanna-Jones as a way to reframe American history without glossing over the systems that allowed slavery to thrive and how those systems remain in effect now. Hannah-Jones is on board with Hulu’s adaptation, as are Lionsgate, Oprah Winfrey, and Winfrey’s Harpo Films, with Deadline saying that it will be “an ongoing series that connects the centrality of slavery in history with an unflinching account of brutal racism that endures in so many aspects of American life today,” while showing how America’s history with slavery “shaped nearly all aspects of society.”