Thu, Jun 06
|St. Paul Community Baptist Church
Nikole Hannah-Jones Paperback Release Event
Paperback release celebration of "The 1619 Project" with creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones in conversation with Rev. Dr. David K. Brawley.
Time & Location
Jun 06, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
St. Paul Community Baptist Church, 859 Hendrix St, Brooklyn, NY 11207, USA
About the event
Doors Open at 6:00pm. Event Begins: 6:30pm
About the Book:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. “[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE.
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source…