Remember the 400

After visiting Point Comfort — present-day Hampton, Virginia — a few weeks ago, Anthony Ross, director of the St. Louis chapter of Remember the 400, said…

During Anthony Ross’ formative years, his family moved around St. Louis and St. Louis County several times. The one constant in his life was education.…

In August 1619, 20 Africans were chained and unwillingly brought from West Africa to Point Comfort, Virginia, and sold into slavery. Historians point to…