1619 Project: A Visual Experience Fragrance When I hear spirituals

When I hear spirituals

But after years of suffering her mother’s neglect and bitterness

she leaves behind her family

But at home

1619 Project: A Visual Experience Fragrance When I hear spiritualsHere, in these pages, Black art provides refuge. The marriage of beautiful, haunting and profound words and imagery creates an experience for the reader, a wanting to reflect, to sit in both the discomfort and the joy, to contemplate what a nation owes a people who have contributed so much and yet received so little, and maybe even, to act. Nikole Hannah Jones, from the Preface Curated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by Pulitzer