Three-day event planned to commemorate first African Landing in Virginia by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire correspondent • August 22, 2019 In August 1619, more than 20 Africans landed at Old Point Comfort, the present-day Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., and were forced into labor as slaves. That was the beginning of the slave trade in America. This month, 400 years…Read more →