1619: The first Africans arrive in the New World. ... these slaves were stolen from a Portuguese slave ship, ... there are more than 42 million people in the U.S. who identify as African American.

A Bethune-Cookman symposium, "Before 1619," is a look back at 400 years since the arrival of the first African slaves in Virginia, and before, as the first Africans had arrived in Florida as early ...

African slaves had been in St. Augustine for more than half of a century by 1619. ... the claim about the first black slaves was correct. The 1619 Project is certainly a worthy endeavor, ...

At the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond’s exhibit on 400 years of African American history, curator Karen Sherry described the first Africans who were bought to the Virginia ...

In late August 1619, “20 and odd” captive Africans first touched the soil at Point Comfort (now Fort Monroe National Monument), part of England’s new colony in Virginia.These men and women ...

OPINION: This month is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first African slaves in Virginia. The New York Times has created what they refer to as The 1619 Project, whose goal “is to ...

First, Africans had been imported as slave labor in the English colony of Bermuda before 1619. Second, the status of those “20. and odd Negroes” from the White Lion is still a matter of ...

Series of events will commemorate the first enslaved Africans 1619 Commemoration of the First Enslaved African Landing Local dance troupe in African regalia performing routine honoring the First ...

Her first solo exhibition in Germany spans four decades of the African-American artist’s work. A multi-layered reflection on racism, violence and resistance, past and present-day. Arts 05/16 ...

When Nikole Hannah-Jones noticed the absence of her ancestors in American history, it inspired her to tell the full story of America.

In 1619, colonists of the recently founded settlement of Jamestown (now in Virginia) purchased the first African slaves brought to British North America, 20 to 30 unfortunate souls sold by English ...