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I’m pleased to unveil the astonishing cover of FOUR HUNDRED SOULS: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, which I edited alongside the award-winning historian @KeishaBlain. This historic volume is coming out @OneWorldLit on Feb. 2, 2021. 1/9
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Histories of Black America have almost always been written by individuals, usually men. But why not a community of writers chronicling the history of a community? 2/9
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@KeishaBlain and I assembled a community of 80 writers and 10 poets who represented some of the best Black recorders of Black America at its four-hundred-year mark. Though the project was conceived in 2018, most of the pieces were written in 2019. 3/9
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