Join the Restitution Study Group at the entrance of New York City museums that hold slave trade Benin bronzes as we dance and drum in honor of our ancestors who were sold for the metal manillas refabricated into the relics. Choreography by Havanna Fisher.
We demand co-ownership, acknowledgement of the slave trade origin of the bronzes, and access to the relics in the countries we live in due to our ancestors’ enslavement and our ethnocide.
Saturday, 8/5 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12 noon. @metmuseum, 154 Benin bronzes
Sunday 8/6 at The Brooklyn Museum, 12 noon. @brooklynmuseum.
23 Benin bronzes
Sunday 8/20 at The American Museum of Natural History 12 noon. @amnh
48 Benin bronzes
Screen our award winning film, They Belong to All of Us on the slave trade origin of the Benin bronzes. Directed by Tylon Washington.
Contact: rsgincorp1@deadria Website: http://www.rsgincorp.org
Restitution Study Group 
The history involving slave trade brings demoralising mood. So,much needs to be done to obliterate the mood and the anger it could impress on the descendants of the slaves. Their pride should furtherly be promoted by letting them share in the value of the bronzes in ways pleasantly accepted by all stakeholers, if possible
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