Kendi for a discussion about The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, moderated by journalist Soledad O’Brien. ET for The 1619 Project’ sVirtual Book Launch, presented in partnership with The New York Times and The Apollo Theater. Join One World and Pulitzer Prize-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones on Tuesday, November 16 at 8:00 p.m. This issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking and award-winning work of journalism: The New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project” issue. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the English colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Virtual Book Launch Have a question for Nikole and the book's contributors? Click here to submit a question!
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