"Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home"
Radio Series: Distributed by PRI
Press Release: January 23, 2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EVT EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS LAUNCHES "THEN I'LL BE FREE TO TRAVEL
HOME -- THE LEGACY OF THE NEW YORK AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND" A MAJOR
MULTI-PART RADIO DOCUMENTARY SERIES.

"...The free Black population...begins to emerge in about the
1640s...for a period of about 25 years in American history, you
have a community that gave the American Dream to people of all
color. This is the only Community where you could find a free
Black Community, a free White Community, even Native Americans,
some Asians here..." --Christopher Moore--

Where? In old New Amsterdam: thriving, prospering, living together
in peace and harmony almost 400 years ago...It's intriguingly,
engagingly revealed in "THEN I'LL BE FREE TO TRAVEL HOME -- The
Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground."

This Ground Breaking 13-part Documentary Series is believed to be
the first time such an in-depth historical exploration of what a
diverse, multi-ethnic, multi-racial society we have always been
has been done for Public Radio. Says Executive Producer Eric V.
Tait, Jr.,

"The Series uses the discovery and legacy of the New York African
Burial Ground to tellingly capture the significant impact and
contributions African-Americans have made to the social, economic,
and political development of the United States in their almost
400-year battle against slavery and for full, first-class citizenship.
It's a battle that involves all people and all races."

It chronicles factual stories about ordinary citizens and larger
than life people of all backgrounds who made this nation what it is
today. Come meet the Lenapes and Jan Rodrigues; Susannah Anthony
Roberts, Solomon Peters, Josiah Huddy, Colonel Tye and the Black
Brigade; David Walker, David Ruggles and Elizabeth Jennings; the
Tappan Brothers, Catherine "Katie" Ferguson, and Sergeant William
H. Carney.

It's American History as you've never known it -- from 1613 to
2004: dramatic, exciting, diverse, and authentically informative.
Edited at Integrated Automata Studios in Montclair, N.J., and SuMo
Productions of Silver Springs, Md., the Series is produced by
EVT Educational Productions,Inc., in association with Station
WBGO/Jazz 88.3FM, Newark, N.J.

Thurston Briscoe,III, WBGO Program Director is Host and Narrator.
Jacquie Gales Webb is Chief Editor and Consulting Producer. Musical
Arranger, Composer and Peformer -- Daryl M. Waters, with solo
performances by Noel Pointer and Ebony Jo Ann. Funded by the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PRI, Public Radio
International, "Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home" is being
distributed by Public Radio International (r) and begins airing
nationally this coming February.

PRI is the Minneapolis-based public radio network and audio publisher
that supports and distributes programs, many of which are created by
leading national producers and are broadcast by its 745 public radio
station affiliates. PRI programming also is available on locally-branded
public radio station websites, internationally through the World Radio
Network, and nationwide via Sirius Satellite Radio.

For more information about this landmark series, contact: Creative
PR: (888-233-5650; info@creativepublicity.com).