NAACP President Derrick Johnson and Ghana Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia
The NAACP writes:
OFFICIAL EVENT OF GHANA’S HISTORIC ‘YEAR OF RETURN,’ TO BE ANNOUNCED AT 50th IMAGE AWARDS
During the 50th NAACP Image Awards, the NAACP will announce its historic Jamestown to Jamestown event partnership, marking the 400th year enslaved Africans first touched the shores of what would become America.
An official event of Ghana’s ‘Year of Return,”
Jamestown to Jamestown will allow for NAACP leadership, NAACP members
and members of the African American community to honor both ancestors
and the struggle for Black liberation in a groundbreaking trek from
Jamestown, Virginia to Jamestown Ghana in August of this year.
“Jamestown
to Jamestown represents one of the most powerful moments in the history
of the Black Experience,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson.
“We are now able to actualize the healing and collective unity so many
generations have worked to achieve in ways which bring power to our
communities in America, Africa and throughout our Diaspora.”
The
Jamestown to Jamestown events kickoff August 18 in Washington, DC where
participants will travel via bus to Jamestown, Virginia for a prayer
vigil and candle lighting ceremony marking the African “Maafa,” a term
describing the horrific suffering embedded in the past four centuries
related to the enslavement process. Participants will travel back to DC
for a special gathering at the National Museum of African American
History and Culture designed by Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye,
prior to departing to Ghana on a direct flight for 7 to 10 days of rich
cultural, spiritual and cathartic experiences designed to connect our
present to our African past in ways to empower and invigorate the
continued struggle for full liberation and justice worldwide.
Some trip events include:
• Prayer Vigil at Jamestown, VA Settlement
• Direct Chartered Flight to Ghana from Washington, DC
• Ancestral Healing Ceremony at Jamestown, Accra
• 4 - 5 star Hotel Accommodation
• Business, Investment & Development Summit
• Black Tie Gala
• AfricanAncestry.com DNA Reveal Ceremony
• Cape Coast and Elmina Castle Visit
• Assin Manso Last Bath Slave River
• Akwasidae Festival @ Manhyia Palace in Kumasi
To learn more about Jamestown to Jamestown visit: jamestown2jamestown.com
To learn more about The Year of Return visit: http://www.yearofreturn.com
Jamestown to Jamestown Partners:
About NAACP
Founded
in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest nonpartisan civil
rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the
world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities.
You can read more about the NAACP’s work and our six “Game Changer”
issue areas at NAACP.org.
About The Year of Return, Ghana 2019
The
“Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a year-long major landmark spiritual
and birth-right journey inviting the Global African family, home and
abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans
in Jamestown, Virginia. One of the main goals of the Year of Return
campaign is to position Ghana as a key travel destination for African
Americans and the African Diaspora.
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