In a landmark 2019 special issue of The New York Times Magazine, “The 1619 Project” led by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, challenged our country’s mainstream origin story and founding ideals, to reveal instead a nation shaped by the legacy of American slavery. Out of this project—which garnered Hannah-Jones a Pulitzer Prize—came the 1619 podcast, school curricula, and a renewed national conversation about race. Now comes a book by the same name: a retelling of U.S. history that foregrounds slavery and the contributions of Black Americans, featuring expanded essays by Hannah-Jones and prominent Black intellectuals, activists, and poets. At CHF Hannah-Jones discusses how past and present racial inequity affects current practices of democracy, justice, education, and inheritance in our country. Hannah-Jones is joined in conversation by Joy Bivins, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and poet avery r. young.