Tickets:
In alignment with the book and event, tickets must be purchased through a participating black-owned bookstore found on the Penguin Random House website.
Your ticket includes admission to this virtual event and a hardcover copy of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story ($38 retail price), as well as sales tax, shipping, and handling (if applicable).
Genre: Arts & Ideas
Conversation
The Apollo Theater is proud to partner with Penguin Random House in honor of the book launch of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. This virtual event brings together Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and collaborators in conversation around the expansion of the award-winning essay series from The New York Times Magazine. The 1619 Project is a groundbreaking work of journalism that reframes our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative.
About The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story:
A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning “1619 Project” issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself.
This is a book that speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nation’s founding and construction—and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary American life.
Hannah-Jones will be joined by Ibram X. Kendi for a discussion about The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, moderated by journalist Soledad O’Brien. Later in the program, to celebrate the simultaneous publication of The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, a picture book adaption for young readers, Hannah-Jones will join co-author Renée Watson and illustrator Nikkolas Smith for a conversation moderated by author Derrick Barnes. The event will also feature an archival photo presentation by Kimberly Annece Henderson and a poetry reading by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Buy Tickets
In alignment with the book and event, tickets must be purchased through a participating black-owned bookstore found on the Penguin Random House website.
Your ticket includes admission to this virtual event and a hardcover copy of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story ($38 retail price), as well as sales tax, shipping, and handling (if applicable).