ENTERTAINERS JOIN EFFORT TO SET UP SLAVE MUSEUM

Bill Cosby and Cicely Tyson are working with Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder to build a slave museum.

The two entertainers, historian John Hope Franklin, and publishers Lerone Bennett Jr. of Ebony magazine and Earl Graves of Black Enterprise magazine have met with Wilder to discuss plans for the museum in Jamestown, said the state's secretary of administration, Ruby Martin.The group agreed to help launch the museum through a private, nonprofit organization.

Some believe that Jamestown is where a Dutch ship bringing the first slaves to the New World landed in 1619.

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