Under a red sun, seagulls’ calls and the scent of burning sage wafted past foamy waves breaking on the warm sand just after dawn Friday on Buckroe Beach. Occasionally echoed by music from a hapi drum, a native flute or an agogô bell, Ayo Handy-Kendi spoke, prayed and sang as she led an African libations ceremony, calling upon the enslaved Africans who arrived in Hampton over four centuries ago. .
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