Captions for this event will be provided. Please check your email shortly before the discussion to receive the link. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. This program will be streamed on Zoom and simulcast to YouTube. Produced in partnership with the LIVE from NYPL That 400th anniversary is the occasion for a unique collaboration: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by historians Ibram X. 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 along with co-editor, award-winning historian Keisha N. Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans.
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