New Releases by Nikole Hannah-Jones

An illustrated edition of The 1619 Project, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images, The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, placing slavery and resistance at the center of the American story. Here, in these pages, Black art provides refuge. The marriage of beautiful, haunting and profound words and imagery creates an experience for the reader, a wanting to reflect, to sit in both the discomfort and the joy, to contemplate what a nation owes a people who have contributed so much and yet received so little, and maybe even, to act.—Nikole Hannah-Jones, from the Preface Curated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this illustrated edition of The 1619 Project features seven chapters from the original book that lend themselves to beautiful, engaging visuals, deepening the experience of the content. The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience offers the same revolutionary idea as the original book, an argument for a new national origin story that begins in late August of 1619, when a cargo ship of people stolen from Africa arrived on the shores of Point Comfort, Virginia. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and understanding its powerful influence on our present can we prepare ourselves for a more just future. Filled with original art by thirteen Black artists like Carrie Mae Weems, Calida Rawles, Vitus Shell, Xaviera Simmons, on the themes of resistance and freedom, a brand-new photo essay about slave auction sites, vivid photos of Black Americans celebrating their own forms of patriotism, and a collection of archival images of Black families by Black photographers, this gorgeous volume offers readers a dynamic new way of experiencing the impact of The 1619 Project. Complete with many of the powerful essays and vignettes from the original edition, written by some of the most brilliant journalists, scholars, and thinkers of our time, The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience brings to life a fuller, more comprehensive understanding of American history and culture.

Cuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia, y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma. La estudiante aprende cómo la gente que dice haber nacido sobre el agua sobrevivió. Cómo sembraron sueños y esperanza. Cómo aprendieron nuevas palabras para amor para amigo para familia para alegría para crecer para hogar. Con verso lírico escrito por la periodista ganadora del Premio Pulitzer Nikole Hannah-Jones y Renée Watson, autora ganadora de un Premio de Honor Newbery, e ilustraciones extraordinarias de Nikkolas Smith, al narrar las consecuencias de la esclavitud y la historia de la resistencia Negra en los Estados Unidos, este libro para niños del Proyecto 1619 sirve como una guía para que lectores de todas las edades puedan reflexionar sobre el origen de la identidad americana. Bestseller #1 del New York Times

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 Renée 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.

A multimedia investigation presented online and, in collaboration with the Atlantic, in print, focusing on a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school to probe America''s racial divide. In particular, the series tells the story of the African American Dent family, all of whom attended Central High School. The three generations of Dents personally experience Central''s shifting segregation, desegregation, and, now, resegregation. ProPublica traces this historical trajectory as Central goes from a white school to a racially desegregated one, following civil rights litigation. In 2000, however, the school was released from its federal desegregation court order. Socio-economic conditions, demographics, housing, and migration patterns have since combined to reverse the achievements of school desegregation at Central and today its students are 99 percent black. Impressively researched and written, the story features reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones''s 9,000-word article, augmented by extensive source notes, photographs, a short documentary, interactive timeline, and a searchable database.--Summary supplied by cataloger, based on Committee Commentary in the Gavel Awards program booklet.