Jesse Jackson gets teary eyes as he speacks about Martin Luther King JR.
A man stands in the door of no return on Gorée Island in Senegal where slaves left Africa bound for the Americas.
The African Renaissance Monument in silhouette
Jesse Jackson (L), Senegal's ambassador to the United States Fatou Danielle Diagne (C) and Julian Bond (R) stare out of the door of no return on Goree Island.
NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous looks out the door of no return on Gorée Island
Off the Coast of Gorée Island
Jesse Jackson (L) and Julian Bond (R) stare out of the door of no return on Goree Island.
Hostess Yaune Ndiaye
Birds fly over the The African Renaissance Monument in Dakar.
Muscian Akon (l) UNAIDS representative Djbril Diallo and Senegal's ambassador to the United States.
The African Renaissance Monument
The African Renaissance Monument at night