The Kunta Kinte–Alex Haley Foundation and Asbury United Methodist Church, Annapolis, are joining together to create the Asbury Cemetery Memorial Garden—a permanent place of remembrance honoring the nearly 300 individuals believed to be buried at this historic site.
On Sunday, September 27, the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation will hold its annual commemoration of the arrival of Kunta Kinte to the Annapolis docks. This ceremony has been held every year since 1987, recognizing the arrival of the Lord Ligonier, which sailed from the Gambia River on July 5, 1767, with 140 captured Gambians. It arrived in Annapolis, Maryland on September 29, 1767, with only 98 survivors. Haley believed one of those survivors was his Ancestral Elder, seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte.