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Roots promote Philly while working in NY

The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation has enlisted Philly hip-hop heroes The Roots to talk up Philly tourism. Ahmir "?uestlove"  Thompson and Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter will talk with reporters Thursday in New York about summer events in town. These events include the group's own Roots Picnic at the Festival Pier at Penn's Landing on June 6. The Roots, of course, now work days in New York as the house band on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." African American Museum president Romona Riscoe Benson will be in New York to discuss "Audacious Freedom: The History of African Americans in Philadelphia 1776-1876," a new permanent exhibition to open here this summer, and Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, will speak about "Galileo, The Medici and the Age of Astronomy," soon opening at the science museum.