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"In the spirit of SANKOFA...Reach Back and Fetch your history & your culture so that you will take purposeful steps into the future."
~ Chadra Pittman, Founder & Executive Director
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Hampton First at Fort Monroe
Hampton First at Point Comfort
Sunday, April 28
2-3:30 pm
At the gazebo next to The Chamberlin at Fort Monroe
Join us to recognize native inhabitants, European settlers who arrived in 1607,
and enslaved Africans brought to the New World in 1619 whose melding of cultures
began what is now Hampton, and whose impact and legacy pervades our society today.
Opening Remarks
George Wallace
Vice Mayor, City of Hampton
Gospel Selections
Brenda D.Tucker (Doswell)
Soprano Soloist
Speakers
Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Norfolk State University
Project 1619
Mike Cobb
Curator, Hampton History Museum
Deanna Beacham
American Indian Program Manager
National Park Service, Chesapeake Bay
Chadra Pittman Walke
The Sankofa Projects
Closing Ceremony
Weyanoke Association for Red-Black Culture
Traditional Music & Dance
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