The 1619 Project Ornament displaying the scratches from its

displaying the scratches from its previous life as a skateboard

and the background stories of key activists

the Brooklyn Bridge connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn

This MTA articulated bus has six wheels

·        Each earring is

The 1619 Project Ornament displaying the scratches from itsIn 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 referred to as the countrys original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States. The New York Times Magazines award