DC-area national parks to mark 400 years after 1st arrival of enslaved Africans in Va.
(WorldNews Netherlands)

The Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia. (National Park Service) National parks across the U.S. will commemorate on Sunday the 400th anniversary of the first landing of enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America, including parks in the D.C. area. The National Park Service said in a statement that parks and monuments nationwide will ring bells for four minutes at 3 p.m. EDT to honor the captured Africans who were brought to Point Comfort, in Hampton, Virginia - now a...