The 1619 project a new origin

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Author\'s Note
A Note about This Book
Epigraph
Preface: Origins by Nikole Hannah-Jones
1619
The White Lion, poem by Claudia Rankine
Chapter 1: Democracy by Nikole Hannah-Jones
1662
Daughters of Azimuth, poem by Nikky Finney
1682
Loving Me, poem by Vievee Francis
Chapter 2: Race by Dorothy Roberts
1731
Conjured, poem by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
1740
A Ghazalled Sentence After “My People…Hold on” by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740, poem by Terrance Hayes
Chapter 3: Sugar by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
1770
First to Rise, poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
1773
Proof [dear Phillis], poem by Eve L. Ewing
Chapter 4: Fear by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander
1775
Freedom Is Not for Myself Alone, fiction by Robert Jones, Jr.
1791
Other Persons, poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Chapter 5: Dispossession by Tiya Miles
1800
Trouble the Water, fiction by Barry Jenkins
1808
Sold South, fiction by Jesmyn Ward
Chapter 6: Capitalism by Matthew Desmond
1816
Fort Mose, poem by Tyehimba Jess
1822
Before His Execution, poem by Tim Seibles
Chapter 7: Politics by Jamelle Bouie
1830
We as People, poem by Cornelius Eady
1850
A Letter to Harriet Hayden, monologue by Lynn Nottage
Chapter 8: Citizenship by Martha S. Jones
1863
The Camp, fiction by Darryl Pinckney
1866
An Absolute Massacre, fiction by ZZ Packer
Chapter 9: Self-Defense by Carol Anderson
1870
Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind, poem by Tracy K. Smith
1883
no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails), poem by Evie Shockley
Chapter 10: Punishment by Bryan Stevenson
1898
Race Riot, poem by Forrest Hamer
1921
Greenwood, poem by Jasmine Mans
Chapter 11: Inheritance by Trymaine Lee
1925
Bad Blood, fiction by Yaa Gyasi
Chapter 12: Medicine by Linda Villarosa
1955
1955, poem by Danez Smith
1960
From Behind the Counter, fiction by Terry McMillan
Chapter 13: Church by Anthea Butler
1963
Youth Sunday, poem by Rita Dove
On “Brevity”, poem by Camille T. Dungy
Chapter 14: Music by Wesley Morris
1965
Quotidian, poem by Natasha Trethewey
1966
The Panther Is a Virtual Animal, poem by Joshua Bennett
Chapter 15: Healthcare by Jeneen Interlandi
1972
Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered, fiction by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
1974
Crazy When You Smile, poem by Patricia Smith
Chapter 16: Traffic by Kevin M. Kruse
1984
Rainbows Aren’t Real, Are They?, fiction by Kiese Laymon
1985
A Surname to Honor Their Mother, poem by Gregory Pardlo
Chapter 17: Progress by Ibram X. Kendi
2005
At the Superdome After the Storm Has Passed, poem by Clint Smith
2008
Mother and Son, fiction by Jason Reynolds
Chapter 18: Justice by Nikole Hannah-Jones
2020
Progress Report, poem by Sonia Sanchez
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Notes
Contributors
Credits