Nikole Hannah-Jones

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

Book Résumé Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson: Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma’s counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States (Fiction, Children) Report Censorship

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Book Résumé Nikole Hannah-Jones: 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

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