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25-year Alex Haley Memorial Celebration - For the purpose of identifying the "25-year Alex Haley Memorial Celebration" that will be held on Monday, December 9, 2024, as a Major Special Event; and waiving charges for certain City of Annapolis costs related to city services for that event.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Resolution 52-24
Introduced by: Alderwoman Finlayson
Co-sponsor: Mayor Buckley, Ald. Huntley
Referred to:
Finance Committee
A RESOLUTION concerning
25-year Alex Haley Memorial Celebration
FOR the purpose of identifying the "25-year Alex Haley Memorial Celebration" that will be held on Monday, December 9, 2024, as a Major Special Event; and waiving charges for certain City of Annapolis costs related to city services for that event.
WHEREAS, Section 14.18.110 of the City Code states, "the City Council may exempt certain special events from fees by resolution"; and
WHEREAS, The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, led by President and Founder Leonard A. Blackshear, began the process of building the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial in 1992; and
WHEREAS, The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial at the end of Annapolis' Ego Alley with statues of Alex Haley reading to three children was unveiled and dedicated on December 9, 1999; and
WHEREAS, The City-owned memorial is inspired by Alex Haley's 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Roots: The Saga of an American Family," which explores the lives of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, and his descendants who were captured, sold into slavery, and brought to the United States;
WHEREAS, The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation estimates that the memorial is visited by approximately 1,000,000 people each year; and
WHEREAS, The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to the exploration, rediscovery, and preservation of Alex Haley's symbolic journey through African American history, genealogy, and cultural pride; and
WHEREAS, Th...
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