title: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
text: # The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
  
  The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a 2021 anthology of essays and poetry, published by Random House's One World imprint on November 16, 2021. It is a book-length expansion of the essays presented in the 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine in August 2019. The book was created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, and is edited by Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.
  
  On January 26, 2023, The 1619 Project documentary television series based on the original project and book debuted on Hulu.
  
  ## Contents
  
  * Preface: "Origins" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  * "The White Lion", poem by Claudia Rankine
  * "Democracy" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
     * "Daughters of Azimuth", poem by Nikky Finney
     * "Loving Me", poem by Vievee Francis
  * "Race" by Dorothy Roberts
     * "Conjured", poem by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
     * "A Ghazalled Sentence After "My People...Hold On" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740", poem by Terrance Hayes
  * "Sugar" by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
     * "First to Rise", poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
     * "proof [dear Phillis]", poem by Eve L. Ewing
  * "Fear" by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander
     * "Freedom Is Not for Myself Alone", fiction by Robert Jones, Jr.
     * "Other Persons", poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
  * "Dispossession" by Tiya Miles
     * "Trouble the Water", fiction by Barry Jenkins
     * "Sold South", fiction by Jesmyn Ward
  * "Capitalism" by Matthew Desmond
     * "Fort Mose", poem by Tyehimba Jess
     * "Before His Execution", poem by Tim Seibles
  * "Politics" by Jamelle Bouie
     * "We as People", poem by Cornelius Eady
     * "A Letter to Harriet Hayden", monologue by Lynn Nottage
  * "Citizenship" by Martha S. Jones
     * "The Camp", fiction by Darryl Pinckney
     * "An Absolute Massacre", fiction by ZZ Packer
  * "Self-defense" by Carol Anderson
     * "Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind", poem by Tracy K. Smith
     * "no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)", poem by Evie Shockley
  * "Punishment" by Bryan Stevenson
     * "Race Riot", poem by Forrest Hamer
     * "Greenwood", poem by Jasmine Mans
  * "Inheritance" by Trymaine Lee
     * "The New Negro", poem by A. Van Jordan
     * "Bad Blood", fiction by Yaa Gyasi
  * "Medicine" by Linda Villarosa
     * "1955", poem by Danez Smith
     * "From Behind the Counter", fiction by Terry McMillan
  * "Church" by Anthea Butler
     * "Youth Sunday", poem by Rita Dove
     * "On "Brevity"", poem by Camille T. Dungy
  * "Music" by Wesley Morris
     * "Quotidian", poem by Natasha Trethewey
     * "The Panther Is a Virtual Animal", poem by Joshua Bennett
  * "Healthcare" by Jeneen Interlandi
     * "Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered", fiction by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
     * "Crazy When You Smile", poem by Patricia Smith
  * "Traffic" by Kevin M. Kruse
     * "Rainbows Aren't Real, Are They?", fiction by Kiese Laymon
     * "A Surname to Honor Their Mother", poem by Gregory Pardlo
  * "Progress" by Ibram X. Kendi
     * "At the Superdome After the Storm Has Passed", poem by Clint Smith
     * "Mother and Son", fiction by Jason Reynolds
  * "Justice" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
     * "Progress Report", poem by Sonia Sanchez
  
  ## Reception
  
  Numerous historians criticized the book for factual and historical inaccuracies, inconsistency, or exaggeration. The most frequent issue historians take issue with is that Hannah-Jones claims "...that the patriots fought the American Revolution in large part to preserve slavery in North America."; a claim that is contested by historians as not holding up to a review of the historical record.
  
  The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending November 20, 2021.
  
  