Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
(Book)

Featuring works by (in alphabetical order): Derrick Alridge, Esther Armah, Molefi Kete Asante, William J. Barber II, Kathryn Sophia Belle [formerly Kathryn T. Gines], Joshua Bennett, Daina Ramey Berry, Jamelle Bouie, Herb Boyd, Donna Brazile, Jericho Brown, Mahogany L. Browne, Howard Bryant, Brandon R. Byrd, Charles E. ("Charlie") Cobb, Jr., William A. ("Sandy") Darity, Jr., Angela Y. Davis, Sylviane A. Diouf, Deborah Douglas, Michelle Duster, Crystal N. Feimster, James Forman, Jr., Alicia Garza, Annette Gordon-Reed, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Kali Nicole Gross, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Michael Harriot, Mary E. Hicks, DaMaris B. Hill, Allyson Hobbs, Tera W. Hunter, Sherrilyn Ifill, Kellie Carter Jackson, Mitchell S. Jackson, Karine Jean-Pierre, Martha S. Jones, Robert Jones, Jr., Peniel Joseph, Blair L. M. Kelley, Robin D. G. Kelley, Donika Kelly, Bakari Kitwana, Kiese Laymon, Christopher J. Lebron, David A. Love, Wesley Lowery, Kyle T. Mays, Bernice L. McFadden, Heather C. McGhee, Tiya Miles, Brentin Mock, Jennifer L. Morgan, Pamela Newkirk, Ijeoma Oluo, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Morgan Parker, Nakia D. Parker, Imani Perry, John A. Powell, Laurence Ralph, Ishmael Reed, Justin Phillip Reed, Russell Rickford, Dorothy E. Roberts, Walter C. Rucker, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Eugene Scott, Chet'la Sebree, Adam Serwer, Barbara Smith, Clint Smith, Patricia Smith, Brenda E. Stevenson, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Salamishah Tillet, Jemar Tisby, Sasha Turner, Corey D. B. Walker, Harriet A. Washington, Craig Steven Wilder, Isabel Wilkerson, Chad Williams, Heather Andrea Williams, Phillip B. Williams, Raquel Willis, Kai Wright.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-442) and index.

"A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas -- and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists -- each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of Black people in America." -- Provided by publisher.