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in HistoryThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story – Nikole Hannah-Jones
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. 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 […] More
in HistoryThe Greatest Poet of World
Shah Abalul Latif of Bhit is a very great Poet and his art in one sense is “impressionist par excellence’, Incidents, episodes, legends, subjects of observation are not related as stories; only their significance is expressed in poems that deal with higher evolution of man, ‘These episodes and legends employed by Latif, are but the […] More
in HistoryHow the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America – Clint Smith
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. “The Atlantic writer drafts a history of slavery in this country unlike anything you’ve read before” (Entertainment Weekly). Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an […] More
