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

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Quantity One New York Occasions Finest SellerA dramatic enlargement of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Challenge: A New Origin Story provides a profoundly revealing imaginative and prescient of the American previous and current.Named top-of-the-line 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 individuals from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that will final for the following 250 years. That is generally 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 Occasions Journal’s award-winning “1619 Challenge” situation reframed our understanding of American historical past by putting slavery and its persevering with legacy on the heart of our nationwide narrative. This new guide 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 loss plan, site visitors, and citizenship to capitalism, faith, and our democracy itself.It is a guide that speaks on to our present second, contextualizing the programs of race and caste inside which we function at this time. It reveals long-glossed-over truths round our nation’s founding and development – and the best way 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 forged, 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 Okay. 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