Day: November 14, 2019

What would it mean to mark the nation’s birth with the date 1619, the year that 20-30 enslaved Africans were brought as cargo to Point Comfort, Virginia, and sold to colonists, rather than 1776?   How might a new periodization shape our understandings of who and what constitutes America and Americans?  In observation of the 400th…Continue Reading 1619 Project Meet-Up