Together – through essays and short stories, personal vignettes and fiery polemics – they redefine America and the way its history can be told.

Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the presentedited by Ibram X. In chronological chapters, each by a different author and spanning five years, the book charts the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans to the present – a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles and stunning achievements.Ĭontributors include some of today’s leading writers, historians, journalists, lawyers, poets and activists. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. This collection brings together ninety different authors. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. There is an introduction, a conclusion, ten poems, and eighty essays. Four Hundred Souls (2021) is an innovative and insightful recounting of African American history. Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices - co-curated by Ibram X. Four Hundred Souls consists of ninety-two brief pieces of writing, each by a different author.

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