The book ends with Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza reflecting on the years between Aug. 20, 1619-the symbolic birthdate of African America when “twenty ‘Negroes’ stepped off the ship White Lion in Jamestown, Virginia”-to Aug. In the opening essay, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer-winning creator of The 1619 Project, examines the period from Aug. This engrossing collection is divided into 10 parts, each covering 40 years, and each part ends with a poem that captures the essence of the preceding essays. In order to tell the story of Black America, acclaimed scholar Kendi and award-winning historian Blain bring together 80 Black “historians, journalists, activists, philosophers, novelists, political analysts, lawyers, anthropologists, curators, theologians, sociologists, essayists, economists, educators, and cultural critics” and 10 poets. A compendium of essays and poems chronicling 400 years of Black American history.
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