We apologize for the radio silence on this blog since the end of the conference. After it ended and we said goodbye to the wonderful new and old friends we met over the two days, we were all thrown back into the daily grind of teaching, grading and working on other projects. We have also [...]
Thank you and let’s keep going!
Thank you to all the scholars, moderators, facilitators, volunteers, visitors, students, performers and conference staff for an amazing two days! We had wonderful conversations, shared stories, historical sources, food, poetry, friendship and solidarity. Please, let’s keep this flowing. Post your comments, questions and feedback here on the blog or email us at [email protected] or [email protected]. [...]
The Legacy of Weyanoke: A Journey Through Song
Taking a less tense and musical tone, “Legacy of Weyanoke” took the remnants of the days’ conference attendees on a journey from Africa to the American South through song. The quartet was accompanied by their two-person band. While playing bongo drums, maracas, a tambourine, and a cabasa, the kente-cloth-wearing group sang African chant songs, and [...]
The Creolization of America: Beyond Black, White, and Red
Room 138B in the Norfolk State student center held a lively and almost heated roundtable discussion on how the 1619 era affected Native American, African, and European American culture. Conference-goers shared knowledge on the matter, attempting to answer such questions as “Why did Europeans specifically bring Africans to America?”; “Who’s role in the shaping of [...]
Food For Thought: Scholarly Teachings on Historical Matters
Norfolk State University students, faculty, and a host of other conference-goers took time to eat and reflect on the 1619 era through research from great historian scholars. Dr. Corey D.B. Walker of Brown University, Dr. Ben Vinson III of Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Peter Wallenstein of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University each gave [...]
The Colombian Exchange and Iberian Legacy In 1619
“Remember the big world all the people were living in”, summoned Dr. Richard Bond of Virginia Wesleyan University, as scholarly minds discussed the effects of transitional patchwork between African-Americans, and Latinos in the colonial American experience. For Native Americans, Africans, Latin Americans, minorities of Latino or Hispanic descent, Spaniards and Portuguese, as well as Europeans, [...]
“1619″ The Making of American Conference @NSU
I am sitting in this wonderful “1619″ conference in the beautiful NSU New Student Center. I’m amazed at the stories and facts that these historian scholars are sharing about the first Africans who arrived at James Town. If mama was a slave, you children were slaves. At one point if you be came a Christian [...]
The Legacy of Weyanoke
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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 [...]