Meet the Moderators: Mr. Calvin Pearson
Mr. Calvin Pearson is a moderator of the “Novelists, Griots, Travel Writers, and Keepers of Sacred Trusts” panel. I am the Founder of Project 1619 Inc. and our goal is to promote the correct history that the first Africans to arrive in Colonial America did not land at Jamestown but came ashore at Point Comfort, today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton, VA. It’s important as a nation that we know the history of the Africans and the impact their culture has had on the Making of America. There is quote by Chinua Achebe “Until the lions have their own historians, the tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” The Africans in 1619 did not have their own historians so their history was written by their oppressors. Yes the stories of our ancestors are sacred. But what we were taught in school, the history that had been passed down from generations has been proven to be inaccurate.