1619 Project: A New Origin Story Prints attending one of the most

attending one of the most prestigious high schools in the city

seventeen-year-old Langston Hughes

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preparing for my time to shine

Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis

1619 Project: A New Origin Story Prints attending one of the mostA 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. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes