Zaid Jilani addresses NY Times defense of 1619 Project

Journalist Zaid Jilani responded on Monday to The New York Times’ Friday defense of its 1619 Project, saying internal “pressure” likely sparked the new statement.Jilani told Hill.TV’s “Rising” he thinks the newspaper’s recent defense of the project came “from an internal kind of pressure” after the Times’ Bret Stephens criticized the project in an op-ed earlier this month. “It seems like there was kind of a unity of purpose among Times…