Captions for this event will be provided. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 16192019 is a 2021 anthology of essays, commentaries, personal reflections, short stories, and poetry, compiled and edited by Ibram X. Please check your email shortly before the discussion to receive the link. Kendi, in full Ibram Xolani Kendi, original name Ibram Henry Rogers, (born August 13, 1982, Queens, New York, U.S.), American author, historian, and activist who studied and wrote about racism and antiracism in the United States. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. The new book 'Four Hundred Souls' explores the history, trials and triumphs of their. This program will be streamed on Zoom and simulcast to YouTube. Its been more than 400 years since the first African slaves arrived on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. Produced in partnership with the LIVE from NYPL Kelley for readings from the collection and a discussion on what it takes to develop a community history, by a community. Kendi and Blain alongside contributors Robert Jones, Jr. Each member of the “community choir,” as Kendi calls it-“women and men, cisgender and transgender, younger and older, straight and queer, dark-skinned and light-skinned'-takes on a five-year period, examining it from their unique point of view and set of experiences.

Blain, assembled 90 writers to consider the 400-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present. Kendi began working on Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 in 2018. Kendi along with co-editor, award-winning historian Keisha N.

Blain Editor, AwARD-WINNING AUTHOR Charles Cobb, Jr. Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Febru Virtually 6:00pm Central Register now Panelists & TOPICS Dr.

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