Download Audiobook The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones in English

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Quantity One New York Instances Finest SellerA dramatic growth of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Undertaking: A New Origin Story provides a profoundly revealing imaginative and prescient of the American previous and current.Named the most effective books of the 12 months by The Washington Publish NPR Marie ClaireIn late August 1619, a ship arrived within the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of 20 to 30 enslaved folks from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that may final for the subsequent 250 years. That is typically known as the nation’s authentic sin, however it’s greater than that: It’s the supply of a lot that also defines the USA.The New York Instances Journal’s award-winning “1619 Undertaking” difficulty reframed our understanding of American historical past by inserting slavery and its persevering with legacy on the heart of our nationwide narrative. This new e book considerably expands on that work, weaving collectively 18 essays that discover the legacy of slavery in present-day America with 36 poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, wrestle, and resistance. The essays present how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into each a part of up to date American society, from politics, music, weight-reduction plan, visitors, and citizenship to capitalism, faith, and our democracy itself.It is a e book that speaks on to our present second, contextualizing the methods of race and caste inside which we function as we speak. It reveals long-glossed-over truths round our nation’s founding and building – and the way in which that the legacy of slavery didn’t finish with emancipation, however continues to form up to date American life.Cowl picture: Lorna Simpson Beclouded, 2018 Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.Learn by a full solid, together with: Nikole Hannah-Jones, January LaVoy, Claudia Rankine, Nikky Finney, Janina Edwards, Dorothy Roberts, Shayna Small, Terrance Hayes, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Yusef Komunyakaa, Eve L. Ewing, Karen Chilton, Aaron Goodson, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Erin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, Adenrele Ojo, Matthew Desmond, Tyehimba Jess, Tim Seibles, Jamelle Bouie, Cornelius Eady, Minka Wiltz, Martha S. Jones, Darryl Pinckney, ZZ Packer, Carol Anderson, Tracy Ok. Smith, Evie Shockley, Bryan Stevenson, William DeMeritt, Jasmine Mans, Trymaine Lee, A. Van Jordan, Yaa Gyasi, Linda Villarosa, Danez Smith, Terry McMillan, Anthea Butler, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, Wesley Morris, Natasha Trethewey, Joshua Bennett, Chanté McCormick, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Ron Butler, Kevin M. Kruse, Bahni Turpin, Gregory Pardlo, Ibram X. Kendi, JD Jackson, Jason Reynolds, and Sonia Sanchez