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Open Book / Open Mind; "The 1619 Project"

Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Jake Silverstein

Two major contributors to "The 1619 Project" discuss the bestselling landmark reframing of American history with the director of the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity.

Don't miss another top author conversation! Audience Q&A to follow. This program is sponsored by the Montclair Public Library Foundation, The Investors Foundation, and watchung booksellers; to support Open Book / Open Mind and other library programs, click here to donate.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, who contributed the essay "Sugar" to "The 1619 Project," is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School. Muhammad directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global black history. Muhammad is the author of "The Condemnation of Blackness," which he discussed on Open Book / Open Mind some years ago, and co-hosts the popular podcast, "Some of My Best Friends Are…" with journalist Ben Austen. Muhammad lives in New Jersey.

A co-editor of "The 1619 Project, Jake Silverstein is the editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine. He commissioned the original New York Times Magazine special issue of "The 1619 Project," which won a Pulitzer Prize for the opening essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones. Before working at The New York Times, Silverstein was the editor of Texas Monthly and is the author of his own book, "Nothing Happened and Then It Did." He is a resident of Montclair.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A #1 New York Times bestseller. "The 1619 Project: An Origin Story" expands on The New York Times Magazine's award-winning special issue. "['The 1619 Project' is] a powerful and memorable work, one that launched a seismic national debate over the legacy of slavery and enduring racial injustice in American life."—The Washington Post

ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER

David Troutt is a Rutgers law professor (Justice John J. Francis Scholar) and the founding director of the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality, and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME). He teaches and writes in four areas of primary interest: the metropolitan dimensions of race, class and legal structure; intellectual property; Torts; and critical legal theory. Troutt is a frequent public speaker and contributor to a variety of national periodicals, including Politico, The Huffington Post, Reuters and The Crisis. He resides in Montclair.

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