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MR. CALVIN PEARSON
...is the President of Project 1619 and is a subject matter expert on the arrival of the first documented Angolans who arrived at Point Comfort in 1619, and will discuss the following topics: (a) the founding of Project 1619; (b) the “accidental landing;” John Rolfe perpetuating the first false narrative in January 1620; (c) explaining not the first Africans to arrive in North America; and (d) discussing the importance of President Barack Obama signing the Executive Order marking portions of Fort Monroe a national monument.
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