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The 1619 Project - A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine; Edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, Jake Silverstein
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Standing on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 2017,
photographer William Abranowicz was struck by the weight of
historical memory at this hallowed site of one of the civil rights
movement's defining episodes: 1965's "Bloody Sunday," when Alabama
police officers attacked peaceful marchers. To Abranowicz's eye,
Selma seemed relatively unchanged from its apperance in the
photographs Walker Evans made there in the 1930s. That, coupled
with an awareness of renewed voter suppression efforts at state and
federal levels, inspired Abranowicz to explore the living legacy of
the civil and voting rights movement through photographing
locations, landscapes, and individuals associated with the
struggle, from Rosa Parks and Harry Belafonte to the barn where
Emmett Till was murdered. The result is This Far and No Further, a
collection of photographs from Abranowicz's journey through the
American South. Through symbolism, metaphor, and history, he
unearths extraordinary stories of brutality, heroism, sacrifice,
and redemption hidden within ordinary American landscapes,
underscoring the crucial necessity of defending-and exercising-our
right to vote at this tenuous moment for American democracy.
The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the
consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the
United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author
Renee Watson. A young student receives a family tree assignment in
school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma
gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400 years
ago, in 1619, their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by
white slave traders. But before that, they had a home, a land, a
language. She learns how the people said to be born on the water
survived. And the people planted dreams and hope, willed themselves
to keep living, living. And the people learned new words for love
for friend for family for joy for grow for home. With powerful
verse and striking illustrations by Nikkolas Smith, Born on the
Water provides a pathway for readers of all ages to reflect on the
origins of American identity.
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is
a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like
for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose
unpaid labour built this land, but have had to spend the last
century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial
injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful
bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past. The
Burden, edited by award-winning Detroit newspaper columnist
Rochelle Riley, is a powerful collection of essays that create a
chorus of evidence that the burden is real. As Nikole Hannah-Jones
states in the book's foreword, "despite the fact that black
Americans remain at the bottom of every indicator of well-being in
this country-from wealth, to poverty, to health, to infant
mortality, to graduation rates, to incarceration-we want to pretend
that this current reality has nothing to do with the racial caste
system that was legally enforced for most of the time the United
States of America has existed". The Burden expresses the voices of
other well-known Americans, such as actor/director Tim Reid who
compares slavery to a cancer diagnosis, former Detroit News
columnist Betty DeRamus who recounts the discrimination she
encountered as a young black Detroiter in the south, and the
actress Aisha Hinds who explains how slavery robbed an entire race
of value and self-worth. This collection of essays is a response to
the false idea that slavery wasn't so bad and something we should
all just "get over". The descendants of slaves have spent over 150
years seeking permission to put this burden down. As Riley writes
in her opening essay, "slavery is not a relic to be buried, but a
wound that has not been allowed to heal. You cannot heal what you
do not treat. You cannot treat what you do not see as a problem.
And America continues to look the other way, to ask African
Americans to turn the other cheek, to suppress our joy, to accept
that we are supposed to go only as far as we are allowed". The
Burden aims to address this problem. It is a must-read for every
American.
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