Resources for Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Arrival of the First Enslaved Africans to North America

  On August 25th, many churches and communities will be marking this quad-centennial of “Landing Day,”  a tragic event that ushered in four centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and racism which persists today. The ELCA continues to grapple with its complicity in these injustices. The congregations of the Southwest California Synod