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Senate: Culture, Historic Preservation, Aging

July 5, 2019 @ 10:00 am

Agenda:
The committee in collaboration with the Office of the Senate President will present a program in celebration of the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019,” the International Decade of People of African Descent, and in observance of Virgin Islands Emancipation and Freedom Weekend.
The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a major landmark spiritual and birthright journey inviting the Global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. It celebrates the cumulative resilience of all the victims of the Trans-Atlantic slave Trade who were scattered and displaced throughout the world in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
Guest presenters:
Alex Quaison-Sackey – namesake and relative of the first black African to serve as president of the United Nations General Assembly.
Azia Corbett Suleiman – director of Earth Mamas Pan African Dance
Myron Allick – representative of the Sackey family
Assata Afua – director of Black Power Theater

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Date:
July 5, 2019
Time:
10:00 am
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Venue

Earle B. Ottley Legislative Hall
St. Thomas, + Google Map