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We’re speaking with two of this country’s leading historians.

“They recognized the significance of this project as a work of history - being history in and of itself.”ĪMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The Quarantine Report. Blain, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, says despite the mammoth undertaking in the midst of the pandemic, all the contributors were excited to take part. “We wanted to bring together so many different voices from so many different backgrounds within the Black community to really share the history of this incredibly diverse and complex community,” says Kendi, director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019” brings together prominent Black writers to collaborate on what they call a “choral history” of Black American life in 80 short essays, including by the renowned scholar and activist Angela Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Kendi and Keisha Blain, co-editors of a new book that situates the white supremacists who rallied around Trump in the longer arc of U.S.

deals with the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S. This comprehensive, dynamic, single-volume work is an essential historical keepsake.As the U.S. With lyrical interludes from ten poets, eighty writers take on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span, exploring their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemic. They’ve gathered together ninety Black writers from all disciplines to tell one of history’s great epics: the journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present. Blain, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and Keisha N.

Blain.Ģ019 marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first captive Africans in Virginia-and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi and award-winning historian Keisha N. A “choral history” of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 90 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X.