Complete assignment is listed as: Subject: Dedication of new memorial at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City, New York, with keynote address by Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and presentations by dignitaries including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Senator Charles Schumer, General Services Administrator Lurita Doan, National Park Service Deputy Director for Operations Dan Wenk, African Burial Ground Superintendent Tara Morrison, New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Director Howard Dodson, poet and novelist Maya Angelou, and actors Sidney Poitier and Avery Brooks. The permanent memorial, constructed to honor the memories of the free and enslaved Africans bured at the original seven-acre Lower Manhattan site in the 17th and 18th Centuries, was opened to the public for the first time.] Photographer: Tami Heilemann--Interior Staff