MahoganyBooks is excited to welcome back our friend Pulizter Prize winner & New York Times bestselling author Nikole Hannah-Jones as we celebrate the paperback release of the book that has taken the nation by storm, The 1619 Project. Join us for an exciting Juneteenth weekend event. The conversation will be led by Well Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim.
A big thank you to our partners and co-hosts at the DC Public Library and the DC Public Library Foundation for your generous supporter of this event.
About the book: The 1619 Project
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • 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.
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 referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States.
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 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.
About the author: Nikole Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. The book version of The 1619 Project as well as the1619 Project children's book, Born on the Water, were instant #1 New York Times bestsellers. Her1619 Project is now a six-part docuseries on Hulu and won the Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.
Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius grant, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards and the National Magazine Award three times.
She also serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Hannah-Jones is also the co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which seeks to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color, and in 2022 she opened the 1619 Freedom School, a free, afterschool literacy program in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. Hannah-Jones holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her Bachelor of Arts in History and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.
About the moderator: Glory Edim is an author, activist, and the founder of Well-Read Black Girl whose mission is to use literature as a tool for advocacy and collective empowerment. Glory has won numerous awards for her work supporting and sustaining literature, including the 2017 Innovator’s Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and the Madam C.J. Walker Award from the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
- Event guidelines are subject to change.
- IMPORTANT: Only books purchased at MahoganyBooks or sponsored by the library will be signed.
- Books will be pre-signed.
- Parking is limited. Ridesharing highly encouraged.
- Note: Books will be available for pick up at the event. Those not retrieved there must be picked up at our National Harbor location within two weeks of the event date. Any left after the deadline will be donated to a local organization.
- Please email us at least seven days in advance at events@mahoganybooks.com should you need any accommodations to attend this event.
- Photographs may be taken during the event WITHOUT FLASH.
- Non-refundable but tickets can be transferred.
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-- Let's have an amazing afternoon, The MahoganyBooks Team
