1619
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2
12 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, had worked the same land for generations. When it became harder and harder to keep hold of ...
The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1
05 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of loss and disposse...
How the Bad Blood Started
14 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. From the shadows of this exclusion, they pushed to create the nation’s firs...
The Birth of American Music
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the sound of America. On today’s episode: Wesley Mor...
The Economy That Slavery Built
31 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The institution of slavery turned a poor, fledgling nation into a financial powerhouse, and the cotton plantation was America’s first big business. ...
The Fight for a True Democracy
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one.“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-...
Introducing ‘1619’
17 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was...