HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) – In 2019, Virginia commemorated the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans brought to English North America. In 1619, about 20 Africans were brought against their will ...

Bells will toll for four minutes Sunday at Fort Monroe in Hampton and throughout the state to mark the four centuries that have passed since the arrival of the first Africans to English North America.

Sometime in August 1619, the first Africans in the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, just a few miles away from what would become the College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 as a ...

The city of Hampton is marking the African Landing Day this weekend. In 1619, the first enslaved Africans from present-day Angola were brought to North America. ‘It’s Disturbing’: Supreme Court Ruling ...

Nate Tinner-Williams, a Globe contributing opinion writer, is cofounder and editor of Black Catholic Messenger. Most retellings of Black history in the United States start with Britain’s city of ...