{"id":2620,"date":"2019-06-30T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2019-09-27T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:39:08","slug":"september-23-courageous-conversation-the-1619-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/september-23-courageous-conversation-the-1619-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1619 Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to tell our story truthfully.<\/h5>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/1619-america-slavery.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The 1619 Project<\/span> The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country\u2019s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.<\/span><\/p>\n

COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SEPTEMBER 23<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Monthly on the fourth Monday<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Merrill Community Center<\/a><\/div>\n
1428 Wisconsin Ave, Beloit, WI 53511, USA<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the English colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the years of slavery that followed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datrockco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}