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Crosscut Ideas Festival

400 Years of Black History

Journalists, politicians, authors and newsmakers from around the world come together at the Crosscut Ideas Festival to take a hard look at the people, policy and events that shape our lives.

400 Years of Black History

Season 1 Episode 5 | 26m 41s | CC

In their new anthology, Four Hundred Souls, Ibram X. Kendi (How To Be an Antiracist) and historian Keisha N. Blain, chart the tragic and triumphant history of Black American experience. Over 90 contributors bring to vivid life the history of slavery and resistance, segregation and survival, migration and discovery, cultural oppression and world-changing artistic, literary and musical creativity.

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