November 2, 2007 is a date that will live in the hearts and minds of  the Rastafarian movement because of a major exhibit called Discovering Rastafari will be opened at the prestigious Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.

There will be a pilgrimage of sorts by a delegation of Rastafarians who will be flying in from all over the world. This delegation will include 1,974 members of Reggae Ambassadors Worldwide, as well as a sizeable group from Jamaica including rastafarian Junior Manning.

This is not the first time that the Smithsonian is recognizing the work of Rastafari. In 2004, there was a proposed exhibit at the Smithsonian is the showpiece of Jake Homiak and Carol Yawneys International Rastafari Archives Project (IRAP),  the crowning jewel of 20 years of research and study by Jake and Carol.

An IRAP exhibit at the Smithsonian, which boasts of 8 million visitors every year, would far eclipse the reach and impact of a mere book on the Rastafari Movemant. The proposed IRAP exhibit, wherever and whenever it is displayed, is viable in and of itself as an educational tool for the American public, designed to promote an understanding of the Rastafari Movement, a Rastafarian website said.

Maxine Stowe, consultant of the recently formed Ethio-African Diaspora Union Millennium Council (a combination of different mansions in the faith of Rastafari), is helping to co-ordinate the event.

Members of the Rastafari community are celebrating the African Millennium with a year-long series of activities which got off the ground on September 11 with a motorcade from the Scott's Pass' Nyahbinghi Centre in Clarendon to the Mandela Park in Kingston. There was also a cultural rally in the park in that day, and a Millennium Dinner was held at the Hilton poolside on September 12.