1619 Project: A New Origin Story Prints seventeen-year-old Langston Hughes

seventeen-year-old Langston Hughes

she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she’s willing to go to protect her

Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace

and depression

attending one of the most prestigious high schools in the city

1619 Project: A New Origin Story Prints seventeen-year-old Langston HughesA 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