Hat-tip to Mike Soderman, ANC 6A03, for passing on information about this event taking place, Saturday August 24: The event will take place tomorrow, Sunday, August 25.
Commemoration of the landing of the first enslaved Africans at Lincoln Park: The National Park Service will honor and remember the first Africans who arrived by force 400 years ago this week. The program is as follows:
2:30 p.m. – “Music tells the Story” – A violin concert by D.C. Strings will draw from melodies that embrace the four centuries of African Americans in America.
3:00 p.m. – Healing Day Bell Ringing Ceremony – This ceremony will last four minutes, honoring 400 years of African American history and culture.
3:04 p.m. – “Monuments to Freedom” The stories of education, freedom and African American history are interwoven at Lincoln Park. Explore the lives of four people who shaped Lincoln Park: Archer Alexander, Frederick Douglass, Mary McLeod Bethune and Hilyard Robinson on a special Ranger-led tour! Following the program, visitors will be able to express their thoughts on what freedom means to them.
You can learn more about this shameful history here.