Thursday, August 24 Arrive no later than 11 a.m. (registration required) Fort Monroe Visitors and Education Center, 2nd floor 30 Ingalls Rd, Hampton, VA 23651 Register to Attend
Join Another View for a live broadcast to mark the 404th Anniversary of the “First Landing" of Africans at Fort Monroe in 1619.
Host Barbara Hamm Lee and producer Lisa Godley will be broadcasting with a live audience from the Fort Monroe Visitors and Education Center.
Guests will include:
Brian Owens – the sculptor working on the African Landing Memorial. Calvin Pearson – Founder of Project 1619 (organization's mission is to promote the arrival of the first Africans in America to be brought ashore at Point Comfort, today’s Fort Monroe) Ric Murphy – Author of “Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia” (Murphy is an acclaimed historian, educator, lecturer and documentarian and has shared his knowledge throughout North America, Europe and Africa.) Addie Richburg – Executive Director of the "400 Years of African American History Commission" Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander is the Endowed Professor of Virginia Black History and Culture at Norfolk State University in Virginia. She is the author of numerous articles including “Dr. Sarah Garland Jones: Beyond Race and Gender in late 19th Virginia” that won the William M. E. Rachal Award for Outstanding Article in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 2019. Newby-Alexander is the author of Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad (2017), An African American History of the Civil War in Hampton Roads (2010), co-author of Black America Series: Portsmouth (2003) and Hampton Roads: Remembering Our Schools (2009). Newby-Alexander co-edited Voices from within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy (2008). Dr. Newby-Alexander has appeared on numerous national programs and documentaries including PBS’s Many Rivers to Cross, the History Channel’s Race, Slavery and the Civil War, and C-SPAN’s broadcasts on history, including the American History Lecture series.
Registration is required to be part of the audience, and guests should plan to arrive no later than 11 a.m.