The Route

This experience is so much more than the places we visit! Still, we know you're curious…so we've offered a few points about the route and an abbreviated route map below:

• We begin our journey where the era of enslavement ended--in Galveston, Texas. The Emancipation Proclamation was read in the last confederate state on June 19, 1865; celebrations marking this have become the Juneteenth holiday and we will join thousands in the celebration. We will visit historic Ashton Villa, Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, Project Row Houses, and other sites in the Houston metro area.
   
• Then we travel east--to Louisiana. We'll visit Whitney Plantation, the only plantation to unfold the narrative from the enslaved point of view, dine at the historic Dooky Chase Restaurant, and consider the role of art in healing and resistance with artists at STUDIO BE.
   
• Through Mississippi, we will visit the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, explore tragedy during Freedom Summer, and learn how the Delta Blues created space for musicians to express pleasure and pain in Clarksdale.
   
• In Memphis we will gain a deeper understanding of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's final days and the movements he supported later in his career. After learning from MCAP activists about the intersection of race and climate change, we will enjoy some barbecue on historic Beale Street.
   
• In Alabama, we will spend time with foot soldiers from the Civil Rights era— at times retracing their steps as we march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. We will spend time with representatives from the Equal Justice Initiative and visit the Legacy Sites, among the most impactful spaces in the United States of America.
   
• With Georgia on our mind, we'll visit the home of Dr. Martin Luther King, wrestle with the legacy of confederate monuments, and explore grass-roots organizing that builds (and fuels!) movements.
   
• Then we'll travel up the eastern seaboard starting in Charleston visiting the brand new International African American Museum, the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church, and sites vital to understanding the food and culture of Gullah people.
   
• Further north, we will visit sites of historic Black joy at Atlantic Beach, occupy sites of resistance, pay respects to those lost in our recent history, and revisit questions of narrative building when we tour Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
   
• We end our journey in Washington, DC. area exploring the site of John Brown's revolt, making a culminating visit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and reflecting with one another over a meal at the Afrofuturist restaurant Bronze as we make personal commitments for next steps in building towards our collective liberation.

And so many other experiences along the way! You will be transformed by the people we travel with, community leaders and activists from yesterday and today, inarguably the best food and music on the planet, and a once-in-a-lifetime journey where we learn in the spaces where history happened, so we can make history tomorrow.