Riverstroll honored
Our Riverstroll program has been honored with inclusion in the National Park Service Underground Railroad program that seeks to coordinate preservation and education efforts nationwide and integrate local historical places, museums, and interpretive programs associated with the Underground Railroad into a mosaic of community, regional, and national stories.

Co-Founder honored
Dr. David Anderson/Sankofa was one of a number of prominent African American storytellers featured in the National Folk Life Festival held in Washington, DC in June. Last year, David was among recipients of the 2008 Free Press Prize for Leadership in The Contemporary Underground Railroad Community. [read the article]

Riverwalk honored
Our "Riverwalk Underground Railroad Tour" has been designated as one of 21 sites of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor of the National Park Service.  Visitors can have their passport book stamped or can purchase a book after participating in the tour.

Good News!
Now you can give online! We are encouraging those who have benefited from Camp AKWAABA, and our program with students at #39 School, to help us expand our programming by making your tax-deductible contribution through GuideStar online or by mailing it directly to us (click here for our address).

Calendar of 2010 Events
You are invited to attend any of our events which are open to the public, and please share our good news with your family and friends.

April - June 10 | AKWAABA and the fifth grade students and teachers of #39 school will be engaged in tours, museum visits, classroom activities, dance instruction and dramatic exercises to help bring to life the history of Underground Railroad activities in the Rochester Area.  The program is sponsored in part through an Arts in Education grant awarded by the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature.

June 11 | Our enjoyable "Riverstroll Underground Railroad Tour" engages a class of fifth graders from School 28.

July 19 | A group of educators from California will participate in AKWAABA's "Riverstroll Underground Railroad Tour." They will be concluding their study of Underground Railroad sites in the states of Ohio, Canada and New York.


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