The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

First edition cover
Editors	Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein
Authors	Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
Language	English
Series	The 1619 Project
Subject	African-American history
Publisher	One World (imprint of Random House)
Publication date	November 16, 2021
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover), e-book, audiobook
Pages	624
ISBN	978-0-593-23057-2 First edition hardcover
OCLC	1250435664
Dewey Decimal	973
LC Class	E441 .A15 2021

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a 2021 anthology of essays and poetry, published by One World (an imprint of Random House) on November 16, 2021. 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 was created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, and is edited by Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.

On January 26, 2023, The 1619 Project documentary television series based on the original project and book debuted on Hulu.

Contents

• Preface: "Origins" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• "The White Lion", poem by Claudia Rankine
• "Democracy" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  • "Daughters of Azimuth", poem by Nikky Finney
  • "Loving Me", poem by Vievee Francis
• "Race" by Dorothy Roberts
  • "Conjured", poem by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  • "A Ghazalled Sentence After "My People...Hold On" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740", poem by Terrance Hayes
• "Sugar" by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
  • "First to Rise", poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
  • "proof [dear Phillis]", poem by Eve L. Ewing
• "Fear" by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander
  • "Freedom Is Not for Myself Alone", fiction by Robert Jones, Jr.
  • "Other Persons", poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
• "Dispossession" by Tiya Miles
  • "Trouble the Water", fiction by Barry Jenkins
  • "Sold South", fiction by Jesmyn Ward
• "Capitalism" by Matthew Desmond
  • "Fort Mose", poem by Tyehimba Jess
  • "Before His Execution", poem by Tim Seibles
• "Politics" by Jamelle Bouie
  • "We as People", poem by Cornelius Eady
  • "A Letter to Harriet Hayden", monologue by Lynn Nottage
• "Citizenship" by Martha S. Jones
  • "The Camp", fiction by Darryl Pinckney
  • "An Absolute Massacre", fiction by ZZ Packer
• "Self-defense" by Carol Anderson
  • "Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind", poem by Tracy K. Smith
  • "no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)", poem by Evie Shockley
• "Punishment" by Bryan Stevenson
  • "Race Riot", poem by Forrest Hamer
  • "Greenwood", poem by Jasmine Mans
• "Inheritance" by Trymaine Lee
  • "The New Negro", poem by A. Van Jordan
  • "Bad Blood", fiction by Yaa Gyasi
• "Medicine" by Linda Villarosa
  • "1955", poem by Danez Smith
  • "From Behind the Counter", fiction by Terry McMillan
• "Church" by Anthea Butler
  • "Youth Sunday", poem by Rita Dove
  • "On "Brevity"", poem by Camille T. Dungy
• "Music" by Wesley Morris
  • "Quotidian", poem by Natasha Trethewey
  • "The Panther Is a Virtual Animal", poem by Joshua Bennett
• "Healthcare" by Jeneen Interlandi
  • "Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered", fiction by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
  • "Crazy When You Smile", poem by Patricia Smith
• "Traffic" by Kevin M. Kruse
  • "Rainbows Aren't Real, Are They?", fiction by Kiese Laymon
  • "A Surname to Honor Their Mother", poem by Gregory Pardlo
• "Progress" by Ibram X. Kendi
  • "At the Superdome After the Storm Has Passed", poem by Clint Smith
  • "Mother and Son", fiction by Jason Reynolds
• "Justice" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  • "Progress Report", poem by Sonia Sanchez

Reception

The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending November 20, 2021.

See also

• The 1619 Project: Born on the Water