The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and...
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New York :
One World,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Origins / by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The white lion / poem by Claudia Rankine
- Democracy / by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Daughters of azimuth / poem by Nikky Finney
- Loving me / poem by Vievee Francis
- Race / by Dorothy Roberts
- Conjured / poem by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- A ghazalled sentence after "My people... Hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740 / poem by Terrance Hayes
- Sugar / by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- First to rise / poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Proof [dear Phillis] / poem by Eve L. Ewing
- Fear / by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander
- Freedom is not for myself alone / fiction by Robert Jones, Jr.
- Other persons / poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Dispossession / by Tiya Miles
- Trouble the water / fiction by Barry Jenkins
- Sold South / fiction by Jesmyn Ward
- Capitalism / by Matthew Desmond
- Fort Mose / poem by Tyehimba Jess
- Before his execution / poem by Tim Seibles
- Politics / by Jamelle Bouie
- We as people / poem by Cornelius Eady
- A letter to Harriet Hayden / monologue by Lynn Nottage
- Citizenship / by Martha S. Jones
- The camp / fiction by Darryl Pinckney
- An absolute massacre / fiction by ZZ Packer
- Self-defense / by Carol Anderson
- Like to the rushing of a mighty wind / poem by Tracy K. Smith
- No car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails) / poem by Evie Shockley
- Punishment / by Bryan Stevenson
- Race riot / poem by Forrest Hamer
- Greenwood / poem by Jasmine Mans
- Inheritance / by Trymaine Lee
- The new Negro / poem by A. Van Jordan
- Bad blood / fiction by Yaa Gyasi
- Medicine / by Linda Villarosa
- 1955 / poem by Danez Smith
- From behind the counter / fiction by Terry McMillan
- Church / by Anthea Butler
- Youth Sunday / poem by Rita Dove
- On "brevity" / poem by Camille T. Dungy
- Music / by Wesley Morris
- Quotidian / poem by Natasha Trethewey
- The panther is a virtual animal / poem by Joshua Bennett
- Health care / by Jeneen Interlandi
- Unbought, unbossed, unbothered / fiction by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- Crazy when you smile / poem by Patricia Smith
- Traffic / by Kevin M. Kruse
- Rainbows aren't real, are they? / fiction by Kiese Laymon
- A surname to honor their mother / poem by Gregory Pardlo
- Progress / by Ibram X. Kendi
- At the Superdome after the storm has passed / poem by Clint Smith
- Mother and son / fiction by Jason Reynolds
- Justice / by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Progress report / poem by Sonia Sanchez.