A 'Community History' of Black America

Ibram X. Kendi, professor in the humanities and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, columnist at The Atlantic, and Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh historian and president of the African American Intellectual History Society, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), talk about this moment in Black history and their new collection of 80 writers' and 10 poets' take on the American story, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019  (One World, 2021). Told 5 years at a time, the book documents the history of Black people across this country's 400 year history.