Let your friends and family know that we’re headed to NY! On Sunday, August 15th, we’re taking the We Are Africa movement to Brooklyn! As soon as I met awesome Black entrepreneur, Ardenia Brown, I knew we were headed to Brooklyn.

Ardenia is opening Butternut Market, a fresh product market, in August. She champions her neighborhood and has also engaged fellow businesses to host us! We’ll kick things off with a presentation at House of Art and then continue with discussion and libations at Therapy Wine Bar, right across the street.

Sunday, August 15

2-3:30 pm Presentation

House of Art:  373 Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn

3:30 – 5 pm Discussion and Libations

Therapy Wine Bar:  364 Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn

Are you ready Baltimore? We are so excited to share that we have partnered with Oyin Handmade, a company that specializes in all-natural hair care and body products.

Black entrepreneurs Jamyla and Pierre Bennu successfully create products that are not just natural, but nourishing. I have used their products for years and I am honored that they are partnering with us on this Road Tour to increase pride and self-awareness in our communities! Stay tuned for the Baltimore stop details….

Ok Jackson, we hope you are ready for the movement! African Ancestry and the Afrika Book Cafe are excited to announce our partnership for the Mississippi leg of our road trip! Here are the details:

Monday August 2, 2010

6- 8 pm
Afrika Book Cafe
404 Mitchell Avenue
Jackson, MS 39216

Look out New Orleans, we’ve finalized our plans for your town! We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center for the first stop on the Road Tour. Here are the details:

Sunday August 1, 2010
5 – 7 pm
Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center
1712 Oretha C Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113-1360

We have gotten tremendous response to the upcoming We Are Africa Tour – 2010! We have received hundreds of emails of support and offers of resources. We have even gotten chastised for not including particular cities on our tour. If you have friends in other parts of the country, they don’t have to feel left out. They can join us online for daily video updates, or send a family member or friend to meet us and share the experience.

We are excited to announce that Road Scholar has joined the tour as a sponsor! They are the the not-for-profit leader in educational travel since 1975. Check upcoming blogs for more information from their Asa Hilliard Scholarship and their November 2010 cruise to West Africa.

This August, African Ancestry is hitting the road to share the African Ancestry experience with the community from New Orleans to New England!

For the past 7 years, we’ve helped over 20,000 people of African descent reconnect with their African roots. But our work has just begun.

With over 37 million African Americans in the US alone, we are packing up the car this summer and driving to a town near you to teach, discuss and reunite with the  community and our African Ancestry family members.

But before we finalize our dates and locations, we need your help to really make this tour special.

Tell us what venues to go to.

Recommend venues that would be interested in hosting an African Ancestry event. Think town hall style meetings where we can talk to people about Africa, ancestry, DNA, genealogy and African Ancestry. We’ll hold a mix of large presentations and intimate conversations, and are interested in all venues from bookstores to boutiques to libraries to community centers to college campuses.

Connect us with the right people.

We need your help to identify the leaders and connectors in these cities who can mobilize the troops and spread the word that African Ancestry is coming to town.

Volunteer at an event.

We can’t do it alone. Let us know if you would be interested in lending us a hand at our events—from greeting guests to setting up to serving refreshments.

Give us safe passage.

If there’s a minority-owned hotel or bed and breakfast in these cities, make sure that we know about it.  If there’s an African Ancestry Family member willing to provide a modern day “safe house” and host us during our journey, we graciously accept your hospitality.

If you have any suggestions or are interested in helping, please email us at tour@africanancestry.com with your information.

We’ll be sending out more information on the “We Are Africa” 2010 Road Tour soon. Stay tuned.

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We can’t wait to meet all of you and share the African Ancestry experience in your communities!

And don’t worry if your city isn’t on this tour, we hope to make it across the country over the next several months!