Check out http://thepeoplecouldfly.blogspot.com/, a blog by Intisar Abioto and her sisters. I had the pleasure of meeting Intisar only briefly recently in New York. It's a lovely project and you really have to check the blog to get a fuller flavor. Here's a brief description of the project from the blog:

Call me Intisar. I'm on a journey with my four sisters across America and Africa and South America to sniff out, sift out and research the dreams and stories of young people in the African Diaspora through a legend! about Flying Africans who escape slavery through flight. The folktale is found all across the Americas from the American South to the West Indies, Brazil and even on to Nigeria. HAVE YOU HEARD of it? It is also found in Virginia Hamilton's The People Could Fly. Is it real? Can Africans, can people fly? Did some really fly away from slavery?What does it mean to fly? to be able? to attempt and succeed ? to dream? and shift the dream into reality?.. To dream really and to land in that place.. is it a place too, a dream? our dreams..? We have questions more than anything.. So we are traveling and talking to people, filming and shooting a docu-narrative about journey and the people we meet.. and creating and "telling the tell" as Virginia Hamilton would say.. around these questions.. and these answers .. and the journeys.. of flight! and Imagination. Yes, importance there. Importance there. Don't forget that..ok?

What are our dreams and stories? Can we approach them as realities in waiting? We shall we will we do, we do. Yes? Yes. Here we speak, create around our powers as dreamers and the folks, the folks you hear? who be makin'em reality...
the people who fly. Is that a promise or what? This is for everyone.