FRIDAY –SEPT. 29TH – URGENT! YOU MUST COME TO 290 BROADWAY (at Duane St.) FOR A DAY OF RING SHOUT, LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS, SPOKEN WORD AND MUSICAL TRIBUTES SALUTING OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND FUTURE AT … THE AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND

September 29, 2006 will be  a time to UNITE: Africans, African Americans, Caribbeaners, Bermudans, South & Central   Americans, Bahamans, Cubans, Black Canadians, Mexicans and Native Americans…as ONE UNITED PEOPLE OF AFRICAN   DESCENT at a sacred Lower Manhattan site that honors over 20,000 of our African Ancestors (many buried as enslaved children) who built NYC in early 17^th Century America. From May 1991, when the remains of our African Ancestors were first discovered, to February 2006, when the U.S. declared the African Burial Ground in NYC a NATIONAL MONUMENT – we have never ceased working to get long overdue attention paid to the sacrifices and significant contributions of Africans and African Americans in creating the United States of America.

Please join us on Sept. 29^th with a full day of events as we unite to pay tribute to our ancestors and to Celebrate, Educate

and Empower our Future generations – Our YOUTH!

                                                              Friday, September 29, 2006

3rd Annual YOUTH RING SHOUT   Over 2,000 NYC schoolchildren, youth, families   rally to “unite” as one powerful new  force – at the  Chambers & Centre St. Stage (near City Hall )         Contact Deirdre Hollman: (212) 491 - 2234                                Email: dhollman@nypl.org

                     

10AM - NOON

The following events will take place on the  290 Broadway at Duane St. lobby Stage

1PM – 2PM  GUY DAVIS – Guitarist/Storyteller (son of Actor/Activist Legend Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee)

2PM – 5PM   EXPERT LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS which celebrate and teach the profound 

                      history of Africans and African Americans

5PM – 7PM   ARTISTS TRIBUTES from Poets/Musicians-Singers/Storytellers

                      and Readings from African Ancestors

7PM  Bill Saxton QUARTET – “ANCESTRAL TRIBUTE IN JAZZ” – with special guest Omar Edwards

For information call OPEI : (212) 637- 2019 or go to www.schomburgcenter.org

Presented by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture & the U.S. General Services Administration

In cooperation with the African Burial Ground Office of Public Education and Interpretation (OPEI)