(Miami, Florida) – In celebration of Black History month, City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz and Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones invite the community to attend the In Motion: The African American Migration Experience Exhibit. The exhibit is free and open to the public from February 1 through May 31, 2006, and is open from Wednesday – Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday from 12 noon to 5 p.m., closed on Monday and Tuesday.

“In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience” presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Of the thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic and domestic slave trades were coerced, the eleven others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment. Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of the settlement and development of the Americas. Their hopeful journeys changed not only their world and the fabric of the African Diaspora but also the Western Hemisphere.

The exhibit is sponsored by the City of Miami, Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), The Black Archives, Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Miami-Dade Transit and Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

WHO:          City of Miami, Community Redevelopment Agency, Black Archives, Miami-Dade
                   County Public Schools, Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, Miami-
                   Dade County Cultural Affairs and Miami-Dade Transit

WHAT:         In Motion: The African American Migration Experience Exhibit

WHEN:         February 1 - May 31, 2006

WHERE:        Historic Lyric Theater; 819 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL

COST:            Free

HOURS OF
OPERATION:    Wednesday – Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
                        Sunday from 12 noon to 5 p.m.,
                        Closed on Monday and Tuesday