![]() ![]() It was after the fear had turned to despair and the despair to resignation and the resignation gave way, finally, to resolve. Perhaps it was in the second week, or the third, but surely by the fourth, when they had not seen their land or any land for so many days that they lost count. When it occurred, no one can say for certain. They say our people were born on the water. I just wonder a lot what it was, what it was like. I don’t know, thinking about what they went through. What is going through your head right now? nikole hannah-jones What does it smell like? nikole hannah-jones It’s actually kind of a great day for fishing, which is why it stinks. In 1619, when enslaved Africans first arrived in what would become the United States, black people began the fight to make that ideal a reality. The Fight for a True Democracy In 1776, the nation was founded on the ideal of democracy. ![]()
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