LET US CELEBRATE OUR CULTURAL ROOTS! TRAVEL DOWN SOUTH!

African American Culture and History is rooted in the South.  More than half of the 47 Million African Americans live in the South. 85 percent of all African Americans lineage can be traced to a Southern State.  For many years African-American culture developed separately from European-American culture, both because of slavery and the persistence of racial discrimination in America, as well as African-American slave descendants' desire to create and maintain their own traditions.
 

Today, African-American culture has become a significant part of American culture and yet, at the same time, remains a distinct cultural body. The ‘Southern Cultural Heritage Society is a Grassroot Alliance of Cultural Leaders from each of the Southern States who have come together to celebrate the Culture and Heritage of Black America in the South as a catalyst for Economic and Community Development, in partnership with the Pan African Cultural Heritage Alliance, and using Cultural Heritage Tourism as a marketing platform. The ultimate goal being, to connect the South to Pan Africa and to all People of African Descent.