In the early 1970’s, Toni Morrison and Middleton A. Harris, along with a team of collectors, sought to combine images, artifacts and documents into one narrative that might somehow capture the depth and breadth of what it has meant to be Black in America. Their master work, “The Black Book,” published in 1974, included slave auction notices and sheet music for work songs and freedom chants; transcripts from the trials of fugitive slaves; posters from Black Hollywood films in the 1930s and ’40s; patents from Black inventors. The entries were heartbreaking, amusing, surprising and inspiring. Morrison knew then, as we now know, that we are both living in the history we’ve been handed and shaping the one we will hand off to future generations.
In the spirit of “The Black Book,” “Black History, Continued” is a series that will explore pivotal moments and transformative figures in Black culture. We believe the story part of Black History is vital because, like elements in a periodic table, each story is a building block of possibility.
Looking to the past, the present and the future, we’ll be engaging writers, visual storytellers and our emerging technology team to not just tell big stories, but to tell them in ways that Morrison and Harris couldn’t have imagined when they were sitting in the offices of Random House putting together a book. We’ll also be partnering with New York Times Live for several events. Our project didn’t start on Feb. 1 and it won’t end on Feb. 28. Black History Month is almost over but “Black History, Continued” is just getting started. We hope you’ll visit us often.
— Veronica Chambers
Edited by Veronica Chambers, Dodai Stewart, Adam Sternbergh, Marcelle Hopkins. Photo editing by Amanda Webster. Designed and produced by Michael Beswetherick, Antonio de Luca, Ruru Kuo. Video research by Dahlia Kozlowsky. Photo illustration by Ruru Kuo. Additional support from Jeremy Allen, David Klopfenstein, Lauren Messman and Lauren Reddy.
Top Photo Credits: Larry C. Morris/The New York Times (Dancers at the Dom); Malin Fezehai/The New York Times (Nyouka Baugh); Walter Thompson Hernandez/The New York Times (Compton Cowboys); Brian Dawson for The New York Times (Leah Penniman); Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (Betty Reid Soskin); Mike Lien/The New York Times (Arthur Ashe); Chang W. Lee/The New York Times (Naomi Osaka); Associated Press (Tommie Smith and John Carlos); Larry C. Morris/The New York Times (Muhammad Ali); Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times (Adam Clayton Powell); Tyrone Dukes/The New York Times (Shirley Chisholm); George Tames/The New York Times (Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Harry Belafonte Jr.); Suzanne Plunkett/Associated Press (Gordon Parks); Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images (James Baldwin); Sam Falk/The New York Times (Lena Horne); Erik Carter for The New York Times (Noname); Heather Sten for The New York Times (Jason Moran); Rahim Fortune for The New York Times (Erykah Badu); Chester Higgins, Jr./The New York Times (RUN D.M.C.); Eddie Hausner/The New York Times (Dr. Kenneth Clark); Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times (Ta-Nehisi Coates); Emily Berl for The New York Times (Tracee Ellis Ross, Michelle Obama and Rob Finley); Andrew White for The New York Times (Michael B. Jordan, Denzel Washington); Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times (Amy Sherald); William Sauro/The New York Times (Diana Sands at Harlem Cultural Festival); Andrea Mohin/The New York Times (Allen Sims, Linda Celeste Sims); Patrick Burns/The New York Times (Harlem Cultural Festival); Keith Beaty/Toronto Star, via Getty Images (Patrick Kelly); Carmen Mandato/Getty Images (Colin Kaepernick); Bettmann Archive/Getty Images (Ed Dwight, Cicely Tyson)
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