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This fall, an illustrated edition of The 1619 Project will be published, with newly commissioned artwork and archival images, The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of the American founding and its contemporary echoes, placing slavery and resistance at the center of the American story. Filled with original art by thirteen Black artists like Carrie Mae Weems, Calida Rawles, Vitus Shell, Xaviera Simmons. Complete with many of the powerful essays and vignettes from the original edition, written by some of the most brilliant journalists, scholars, and thinkers of our time, The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience brings to life a fuller, more comprehensive understanding of American history and culture.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University where she is the founding director of the Center for Journalism & Democracy. Hannah-Jones is also the creator of the landmark 1619 Project. In 2017 she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship known as the Genius Grant for her work on educational inequality. She has also won a Peabody Award two George Polk Awards three National Magazine Awards and the 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2016 Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting a training and mentorship organization geared toward increasing the number of investigative reporters of color.
Key Jo Lee is chief of curatorial affairs and public programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco where she is responsible for the overall management and execution of the museum’s curatorial vision, including its exhibitions, publications, and public and educational programs. Lee has a master’s degree from and is PhD candidate in History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. Her first book, Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking, was published by Yale University Press and The Cleveland Museum of Art in January 2023.
Standard tickets do not include a book. To add a copy of The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience, you will need to select “Ticket with Signed Book” from the dropdown menu on the City Box Office website (that dropdown menu appears after you have chosen your seats).
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