Five Points Youth Foundation Goodwill Ambassador Calvin Pearson Project 1619 Hampton Virginia USA United Nations Global Compact Caring for Climate Campaign 2015-2020

1. Andrew Williams, Jr.
President
Five Points Youth Foundation, Inc.
1820 West Florence Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90047
Office: +1-323-752-1180 http://fivepointsyouthfoundation.org
International Advisory Board
Calvin Pearson * Project1619.org
Calvin Pearson, a native of Hampton, Virginia is Founder and
President of Project 1619 Inc. a non-profit organization
whose mission is to promote the arrival of the first Africans in
America to be brought ashore on English occupied territory at
Point Comfort, today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia.
The organization is also raising funds to erect a National
Monument at Fort Monroe by 2019 in honor of the 400th
anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans.
Mr. Pearson has led a grassroots effort for the past twenty
years to tell the true story of the first Africans that had been
purposely falsified since 1619. He organizes an Annual
African Landing Commemoration Day event in Hampton each
year that includes a symposium, concerts and prayer service.
Mr. Pearson is also chairman of the National Juneteenth
Grassroots Enslavement Legacy Commission. He has
authored many magazine articles and papers on the subject
and has been the driving force to get this story told. He is a
frequent speaker at conferences and travels around the
country sharing his knowledge about what he calls the
biggest transgression and atrocity that mankind has ever committed against
another ethnic group.
He attended Hampton University and the University of the District of Columbia and has
a degree in Architectural Engineering Technology. He spent the majority of his career in
Public Administration. As a lifelong resident of Hampton, and knowing that the truth was
not being told, he has always had a desire to research genealogy and the history of the
first Africans in Colonial America.
Project 1619 Contributions
1. Published an article in the Pepperbird Magazine detailing the misconceptions of the
landing of the first Africans at Point Comfort.