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Tue, 11.16.2021

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is published

*On this date in 2021, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story was published.  This book is an anthology of essays and poetry published by Random House's One World imprint.

It is a book-length expansion of the essays presented in the 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine in August 2019. The book is by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine and edited by Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.

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Pour O pour that parting soul in song, O pour it in the sawdust glow of night. Into the velvet pine-smoke air to-night. And let the valley carry it... SONG OF THE SON by N. Jean Toomer.
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