400 Years Since 1619

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Where To Start

Start Here Start at 1619. Move forward.

The Arc is the spine of this project: 40 essays, one chronological argument, five analytical lenses.

The 40 Arc Essays — Canon Index → Full reading order · 1619 to the present · All 40 essays live

The Arc / Observations The running argument. Read the core sequence as one sustained line of thought. Curated Black Media Digest Supplementary reading, media, and adjacent material.

Read the Arc through its lenses

Monument What is formally commemorated and what that public memory hides. History What was structurally done, built, justified, and enforced. Witness Testimony, lived experience, and what the record sounds like from inside it. Culture How the archive speaks through literature, music, church, language, and art. Present How the machinery persists now: policy, power, memory, and consequence.

This site should read like a structured archive, not a loose category list. The Arc is the entry point; the lenses help you move through it with intention. Empty sections stay hidden until they are live.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Hennessey and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Team Up for $10 Million HBCU Scholarship Initiative

According to Black Enterprise, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and Hennessy have partnered to announce a $10 million HBCU scholarship initiative.

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Man Shot Alongside Nipsey Hussle Released from Jail, Has Arrest Dismissed

Kerry Lathan, 56, was on parole when he was shot alongside Los Angeles rapper and entrepreneur Nipsey Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, on March 31.

FBI Arrests 69-Year-Old Militia Leader Whose Group Boasts Ties to U.S. Border Patrol

Larry Mitchell Hopkins, the 69-year-old leader of the United Constitutional Patriots, an armed border militia group spreading conspiracies and rounding up asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border, has been taken into custody by the FBI.

Trump Hits Golf Course With Rush Limbaugh and Without a Hint of Style

Donald Trump seems to be rebounding from the Mueller report just fine.

Prayers Up: John Singleton is Hospitalized in Intensive Care after Suffering a Stroke

John Singleton’s family confirmed the iconic filmmaker’s stroke to E!News on Saturday.

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