The event on Saturday serves as a living outdoor museum where people can experience culture and learn history while getting exercise.

Runners on the symbolic 16.19-kilometer course, which is just over 10 miles, experienced the places where enslaved Africans took their first steps on American soil after being brought to Richmond.

"From the rolling start to 'The Hill We Climb,' every step carries the weight of history and the promise of progress," reads a description of the event. "Run with purpose. Finish transformed."

Two-time Oscar-nominated actor and humanitarian Djimon Hounsou, who started the event, said the city's slave trail provides both a look at the past and a path forward.

"It's great to honor the past and to learn from it and to, hopefully, to have a common ground on which t

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