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/ he Idea of America,

Capitalism, by
Matthew Desmond,

Interlandi,
ystem, by Jeneen

48 / Undemocratic Democracy,
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L nda Villarosa,
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, by Wesley Morris,
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e 70 / Mass Incarceration, by Bryan

ap, by rymaine Lee, Page 82 / Hope,

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86 / Contributors 10 / Puzzles 94, 96, 97 / Puzzles Answers 97 / Endpaper 98

The 1619 Project Continues Behind the Cover

Beyond this issue, you’ll also find a special section in today’s We commissioned the photographer Dannielle Bowman to

newspaper on the history of slavery, made in partnership with the photograph the water off the coast of Hampton, Va., at the

Smithsonian, and an article in the Sports section considering site where the first enslaved Africans were recorded being

the legacy of slavery in professional sports; on Aug. 20, ‘‘The Daily’’ brought to Britain’s North American colonies. So many of our

begins a multipart 1619 audio series; and starting this week, national narratives feature the arrival of ships to the New World

in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, The Times is introducing (Christopher Columbus, Plymouth Rock), and yet this arrival,

a curriculum and educational outreach effort to bring this of these “twenty and odd Negroes” in 1619, has generally been
material to students (for information, see the inside back cover). left out of our founding myths. Rarely is the disembarking of

Look for more #1619project updates in the weeks ahead. these people treated with grandeur. We wanted to change that.

Photograph by Dannielle Bowman for The New York Times.

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