tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51103872575566216962024-03-13T11:04:08.584-04:00Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation ProjectA project of the Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality, the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project was established on October 10, 2004 to apply historical insight to contemporary dynamics to help oppressed peoples exercise their right to self-determination. Our logo is "NEA ONNIM," an Adinkra symbol of knowledge and our capacity for and right to life-long learning.DefendersFJEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628649474792310083noreply@blogger.comBlogger228125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-77426117707959379502024-03-12T11:00:00.024-04:002024-03-12T11:08:55.861-04:00Winter 2024 issue of The Virginia Defender<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJmtrafklKv9NjzGXlIQ6dJMNe1Bc3wRWFZBWT6WY7fssuQnf26CXdC6BkUGII2fINZKJYuyVsh9qjmyK1fPl4LeKFMFCedPTYCMEb4TADTcaiNcfns6p9QlvnHbLoHCKH8s1fYLxLVAq8o3nm3LkdthpyiQrpsnguWeJRgWCkw8E4YDX-j15VCLZUDo/s820/V-Def%2020-1%20FRONT%20PAGE.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJmtrafklKv9NjzGXlIQ6dJMNe1Bc3wRWFZBWT6WY7fssuQnf26CXdC6BkUGII2fINZKJYuyVsh9qjmyK1fPl4LeKFMFCedPTYCMEb4TADTcaiNcfns6p9QlvnHbLoHCKH8s1fYLxLVAq8o3nm3LkdthpyiQrpsnguWeJRgWCkw8E4YDX-j15VCLZUDo/w400-h400/V-Def%2020-1%20FRONT%20PAGE.jpg" /></a><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">THE WINTER 2024 EDITION OF THE VIRGINIA DEFENDER …<br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">… is now on the streets! and online at <a href="https://virginiadefender.org/">virginiadefender.org</a>. </h3><div><br /></div>HIGHLIGHTS:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The Red Onion Hunger Strike</li><li>Fact Sheet on Kevin “Rashid” Johnson</li><li>Uhuru 3 headed to trial</li><li>Jermaine Doss denied parole for 4th time</li><li>The roots of the “Crisis at the Border”</li><li>The Defenders’ take on Richmond’s plans for Shockoe Bottom</li><li>Richmonders demand City Council call for ceasefire in Gaza</li><li>Virginians demand Senators Kaine & Warner stop voting to fund Israel</li></ul>& much more!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-59068179882406878582024-02-28T11:56:00.003-05:002024-02-28T12:10:57.419-05:00Dont' Miss These! Black Historical Preservation & Interpretation $$ and Learning!EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING<br /><br /><b><a href="https://www.savingslavehouses.org/?fbclid=IwAR02UM3VnQYKELEB-IuTlmYrkoMhuaoJ0BdFvLUVfbN72hK84SygF11IHKI">National Trust for Historic Preservation</a> Field Schools</b> - <b>Deadline March 5, 2024</b> - <a href="https://www.savingslavehouses.org/sheet-field-school/sheet/">Field school</a> at which you (or someone from the family) can learn skills here to apply to your project - see menu on the left. <br /><div><br /></div><b><a href="https://preservationvirginia.org/fellowsprogram/">Preservation Virginia African American Fellowship</a> - deadline</b> <b>EXTENDED to March 31</b> - The AAF program supports individuals with an interest in preserving African American voices and history. Through support from the Mellon Foundation, this year’s cohort is expanding from three participants to five. Fellows will learn the process of preservation, make valuable connections in the industry and conduct research to support their own or new projects. Stipends. Click here to see last year's fellows and their projects. <br /><br /><br />FUNDING<br /><br /><b><a href="https://virginiahumanities.org/fellowships/public-humanities-fellowships/">Virginia Humanities</a> - Deadline April 24, 2024</b> - "Our Public Humanities Fellowships help writers, independent scholars, community historians, and college and university faculty members share meaningful research, stories, and cultural expressions that are relevant to Virginia’s diverse communities and that connect audiences to wider regional, national, and global contexts. If you’re engaged in the public humanities, and you’re interested in sharing your work with a wider audience, we’d love to hear from you."<br /><br /><b><a href="https://savingplaces.org/action-fund-grants?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA0PuuBhBsEiwAS7fsNUZEvS10EhJJF4L9YPBK2Dg2LEg0q0FVGkdlGjhuDnQQjF97ZBUQYhoCYRYQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund</a> - Deadlines Vary </b>- launched by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2018, this fund works to advance the broader preservation movement towards a more diverse and equitable representation of American history. Grants showcase the beauty and complexity of Black history and culture in America, while underscoring the urgent need to protect, preserve and interpret these invaluable American assets. <br /><br /><br />Sacred Ground Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16509835002754289781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-66596226962330222802023-12-18T15:54:00.002-05:002023-12-18T15:57:05.299-05:00What's Happening with the Memorial Park?<h3><i>First, there's the current and future racial and social justice part:</i></h3><b><div><b><br /></b></div>Who will benefit? </b>We propose that a dedicated percentage of the increased profits from the construction and operation of The Shockoe Project be earmarked for 1) Richmond Public Schools infrastructure repair, replacement and maintenance and 2) to truly affordable, high quality housing in the city. In addition, we call on the city to commit to hiring as many Black-owned contractors and sub-contractors as possible at every level of design and development, and that once established an equal commitment will be applied to the hiring of Black-owned professionals for the operations of all elements of the Shockoe Project. <br /><p></p><p><b>Who has authority? </b>We propose (and have since the first iteration of the Proposal for a Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park) that a Descendant Community body be formed that is 1) built into the governing structure of the Memorial Park/Campus to ensure the concerns, vision and priorities of the Descendant Community are present and weighted equally, and has 2) equal decision-making authority to the Board of Directors or Trustees to ensure that decisions made will always stay in tune with the priorities of the descendant community. </p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><i>And there's the physical development of the project...</i></h3><p>The master planning, design and community engagement is being handled by city contractor, Baskervill (architects and engineers) and is currently called The <a href="https://www.rva.gov/capital-improvement-projects/shockoe-project" target="_blank">Shockoe Project</a>. The drawing below represents the concepts for each of the areas that make up the memorial park (heritage campus) footprint. The Shockoe Project includes Visitors/Welcome Center, Museum, African Burial Ground, Devil's Half Acre, as well as the land and structures in or planned for the footprint. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WjPpjc5be1Q5v7UA6oyEaYQhydqDdZOI/view?usp=sharing" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1150" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOYD3iTEHYrrlFBL3A_Pem_zWlrZJyPOGx1BKgibzoRZWUw1u-FlmZ6GX7W_j48nG65sFx1mbTRgLX5avyrQM77m4rwZOJgm2W4FXQDBj7EiX3jiOu0Js2cn7Ab5X2DcBnwtu3Hv33lZf-SYKF6lcGrkFdFH9CcWdfPNpIzhxZCwZJ-UWIDlp8Dmq-_E/w587-h364/-5798291948215267359.jpg" width="587" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click on the image for a downloadable file.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Other projects "wrapped into" the master planning tasks for Baskervill: Memorial for the <a href="https://www.richmondcemeteries.org/potters-field/" target="_blank"><b>Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground</b></a> and the <a href="https://virginiahistory.org/learn/life-rediscovered-story-emily-winfree" target="_blank"><b>Emily Winfree Cottage</b></a> Relocation and Renovation. </p><p>The <b><a href="https://www.rva.gov/planning-development-review/shockoe-small-area-plan" target="_blank">Shockoe Bottom Small Area Plan</a> </b>was approved by Richmond City Council and is now part of the city's Richmond300 Strategic Plan. This document articulates planning themes and priorities and centers on the zoning laws that allow or prevent development activities of various kinds. The plan notably includes the new "destination zoning" for the ten acre Shockoe Project area. </p><p>Projects for the improvement of streets, highways and railway services are also underway and decisions being made now will impact the Shockoe Bottom AND Shockoe Hill African Burial Grounds. Only by staying aware and providing feedback can we stop current damage or prevent future harm. Here are three:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://shockoevalleystreets.com/">https://shockoevalleystreets.com/</a></li><li><a href="https://vapassengerrailauthority.org/resources/dc2rva/">https://vapassengerrailauthority.org/resources/dc2rva/</a></li><li><a href="https://i64widening.org/">https://i64widening.org/</a></li></ol><p></p><p><br /></p>Sacred Ground Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16509835002754289781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-68128578485593115982023-12-18T13:28:00.000-05:002023-12-18T13:28:57.389-05:00On the ethical treatment of human remains<p>As chair of the Sacred Ground Project, I was moved and grateful to have been invited to participate in the US-based listening session of <a href="https://americananthro.org/about/committees-and-task-forces/tcethr/" target="_blank">Commission on the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains</a> (TCETHR, pronounced "tether"), held Oct. 27-28, 2023 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. </p><p>Established by the American Association of Archaeologists in 2021, TCETHR is an organizational response to "an urgent call across the field of anthropology for institutional and professional accountability related to human remains in research collections, with special attention to standards and guidelines concerning the respectful care for graves, grave goods, and for osteological remains and genetic material of deceased African Americans and Native Americans that are housed in research collections at museums and academic institutions." </p><p>Co-chaired by Dr. Michael Blakey (Dir., Institute for Historical Biology, wm.edu) and Deborah Thomas (UPenn.edu) and peopled by anthropologists from across the Native and African American continental spectrum, TCETHR initiated a series of listening sessions to hear from regional groups actively engaged in addressing or confronting the historical and legal challenges associated with rightful claims to illegally acquired and archived human "material" and adjacent threats. So far, listening sessions have been held in Japan, South Africa, <a href="https://www.ualberta.ca/prairie-indigenous-archaeology/news/2023/august/aaa-commission.html" target="_blank">Canada</a>, and the US. One is planned for Brazil. This global approach is critical to understanding the breadth of cultural values and practices related to our human rituals surrounding death and burial. </p><div>In Richmond, we have multiple cemetery recovery, repair and preservation projects underway. Each has distinctive issues that affect the goals of proper management, descendant community definition, Black community authority, custody versus ownership, physical preservation, historical and biological research, and memorialization and education, and protection for immediate urban development and infrastructure threats--examples of which include the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground (2004) and successor Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground (2018), and East Marshall Street Well Project (2013), East End and Evergreen Cemeteries. </div><div><br /></div><div>Native cultural resource advocates described how legal protections of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1989 (NAGPRA) have helped efforts to identify, claim and repatriate thousands of remains of ancestors. Efforts that failed were also cautionary tales about the legislation's limitations. Among other discussants, Richmonder Brian Palmer (Descendants Council of Greather Richmond Virginia and Friends of East End and Evergreen Cemeteries) added the challenges of stewardship, decision-making, and sustainable funding for Richmond's emancipation-era Black cemetery reclamation projects, and what to do when a lack of authority and expertise prevents proper care of actual remains and burial sites.</div><div><br /></div><div>The city of Richmond recently reported out to the community the current state of the city's first <a href="https://www.rva.gov/planning-development-review/cultural-resources-management-plan" target="_blank">Cultural Resource Management Plan</a>. Historic preservation and public history regarding Black sites of historic and cultural siginificance across the country have gained attention and funding as well as supporting scholarship in recent years. Local efforts bolster these national strategies and encourage passage of legal means to support ethical approaches to addressing long neglected or dismissed priorities of Black and other minoritized communities. </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">to enhance the City’s existing policies, ordinances, and programs; design practical strategies and achievable goals; and, acknowledge the role historic preservation currently plays and will continue to play in shaping the city’s urban form and character.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div>The Sacred Ground Project endorses this work and looks forward to TCETHR's publication of two reports in 2024--sets of recommendations that will guide anthropologists, museums, universities and municipalities to their most ethical practices in the full spectrum of care, responsibility and respect for human remains and the communities they actually belong to.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-64191709663589549012023-10-14T16:40:00.001-04:002023-10-14T16:40:20.591-04:00This is such an important video.<p>From the Richmond Racial Equity Essays project, an initiative of Ebony Walden, www.racialequityessays.com, listen to Kim Young, Director of Family & Community Engagement of Peter Paul Development Center, discuss the need for "increasing the visibility, eliminating barriers to the dreams and aspirations of, and creating pathways of opportunity for Black youth." </p><p>The "Heritage Campus" needs to embrace this. </p><div><br /></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-46015483850094019142023-10-01T18:21:00.007-04:002023-10-04T22:11:37.786-04:0021st Annual Gabriel Gathering at the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground<h1>21st Annual Gabriel Gathering</h1><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></h3><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQWFeqNHnU27bgNH0OSxI6jwyF4s9TtVpjalM3-qypugfjmjdjESHwRVzCYvvNhQjrK_8BWh0QzVEC4pTXxFTNH7jDPOK9JSdMUOA3M-G4ynujHWs5uJ0TjardyquwdInOmZRumZkI-57IFI1ottym9jgd4FS0GLzxuaYo5yVvMHbZ6xEgm2ILVKX3Xg/s2000/Illustration81shadowlight.png" style="clear: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQWFeqNHnU27bgNH0OSxI6jwyF4s9TtVpjalM3-qypugfjmjdjESHwRVzCYvvNhQjrK_8BWh0QzVEC4pTXxFTNH7jDPOK9JSdMUOA3M-G4ynujHWs5uJ0TjardyquwdInOmZRumZkI-57IFI1ottym9jgd4FS0GLzxuaYo5yVvMHbZ6xEgm2ILVKX3Xg/w274-h274/Illustration81shadowlight.png" width="274" /></a></div></div></h3></blockquote><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Part One, the "People's Tribunal for Virgina's Prisons, Jail's and Detention Centers" takes place on Sat. Oct. 7 at the Richmond Convention Center and features testimony of current and formerly incarcerated men and women and organizations working for criminal justice transformation. A report from the event will be published in advance of the November 7 election.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div></h3><h4 style="text-align: center;"><b>Sat., October 7, 2023, 10 am to 4 pm</b></h4><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/787499949685740" target="_blank">The People's Tribunal on Virginia's Prisons, Jails and Detention Center</a></h3><h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Greater Richmond Convention Center, 5th & E. Broad entrance</div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">The Parking decks is accessed from 3rd between Marshall and Broad streets.</div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihsJzV9d7pb85mqnTPAyid6MblJXr4jNAs-HHLlJ-n2_abgMnEtD1otD1o6wAcYBVXEr2GEvJ0BGIUtH7JZswVXimn0JVO3B2gZnHURKMJmlAOxYCSFN1vCYZ1Sn0C-jMfkBrIi7qHbtMjQ_RUqSF88LztE1qqvgpYalEyLfffcGWVtik6HMyHkXrjoRo/s1042/WeAreGabriel_BreakgtheChains_banner.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="1042" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihsJzV9d7pb85mqnTPAyid6MblJXr4jNAs-HHLlJ-n2_abgMnEtD1otD1o6wAcYBVXEr2GEvJ0BGIUtH7JZswVXimn0JVO3B2gZnHURKMJmlAOxYCSFN1vCYZ1Sn0C-jMfkBrIi7qHbtMjQ_RUqSF88LztE1qqvgpYalEyLfffcGWVtik6HMyHkXrjoRo/w640-h136/WeAreGabriel_BreakgtheChains_banner.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Part Two, "Breaking the Chains in Virginia," borrows its title from artist Melvin Edwards' depiction of Gabriel the blacksmith transforming iron objects into tools of liberation. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div></div></h3><h4 style="text-align: center;"><b>Tue., October 10, 2023, 6:30 to 8:00 pm</b></h4><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://fb.me/e/6rsBkcsOJ" target="_blank">We Are Gabriel, Breaking the Chains in Virginia</a></b></h3><h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><div style="text-align: center;">Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground</div></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><div style="text-align: center;">Parking in lot behind Main Street Station with entrances at Grace + Ambler and 15th + W. Franklin </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us as we</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Honor the memory of the people interred in the first municipal burial ground for Black people of early 19th century Richmond, Virginia, who made up 50% of the population, and</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Remember Richmond's role as a slave trading epicenter made it an early site of mass incarceration for the distribution of Black people as captives used for labor; </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Recognize that Gabriel was one of the first people held in newly completed Virginia State Penitentiary before his trial on Oct. 6, 1800; and</span></li><li><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Remember Richmond's role as a slave trading epicenter made it an early site of mass incarceration for the distribution of Black people as captives used for labor; that Gabriel was one of the first people held in newly completed Virginia State Penitentiary before his trial on Oct. 6, 1800; and </span></li><li><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Understand slave labor's evolution to prison labor as a particular tool of US capitalism: the exploitation of Black labor following the end of slavery and the ongoing use of racism as a tool to prevent the unification of workers.</span></li></ul></span></div></h3><div>----------------------------------------<br /><b>Commemorative News Updates<br /></b>Last month a statue of Frederick Douglass was erected and unveiled in Scotland. <a href="https://www-blackenterprise-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.blackenterprise.com/news-frederick-douglass-statue-belfast/amp/">Read about it here</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-68365797050547685222023-05-31T07:26:00.002-04:002023-10-01T18:22:15.454-04:00The source of the name "Grave Yard for Free People of Colour" and "For Slaves" is the 1835 Plan of the city of Richmond by Bates. It is not the name used originally. In fact it was only ever called by that name once in the records (on that 1835 map/plan specifically). It appears no where else by that name in the records. The original name by which it appears is on the 1816 Plan is the "Burying Ground for Free People of Colour" and the "Burying Ground for Negroes" (enslaved). Though the name it most often appears by is the "Shockoe Hill Burying Ground", of which it was a segregated part. The name we call it now comes from the 1853 Smith map of Henrico County on which it appears by two names. On the county portion of the map it appears under the "Shockoe Hill Burying Ground". On the separated city portion of the map it appears as the "African Burying Ground". The current name is a combination of those two names by which it appears on that 1853 map.<div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-65379767073348634812023-05-15T02:00:00.002-04:002023-05-15T02:00:00.128-04:00Footprints of the Trade Tour Markers<p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HaS7joPPCoY9lCYzDkvbv1U6Ke_SLy4M/view?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank">10 Interpretive Historic Markers</a> for the Footprint of the Trade walking tour of Shockoe Bottom.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VEKOUUHs6LdUdyXFxn2ykkiGtTyYZ0Yh3UYso2C_ZVqC-GKQNy120GGk2XDkZlA_SEHM7bfSti_zcVCqGps2IdYDHVDLnW7lVP0vXfNlgQp5q9yNiSP1IHvpbm-o-g0lRSl6bc-9WIcMxNSLCXGzlcXSFGi3k93Av9XfSDyHdONOg4ifk21EjJjf/s1400/3-27-15-marker-10-liberate-V3-web.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="1400" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VEKOUUHs6LdUdyXFxn2ykkiGtTyYZ0Yh3UYso2C_ZVqC-GKQNy120GGk2XDkZlA_SEHM7bfSti_zcVCqGps2IdYDHVDLnW7lVP0vXfNlgQp5q9yNiSP1IHvpbm-o-g0lRSl6bc-9WIcMxNSLCXGzlcXSFGi3k93Av9XfSDyHdONOg4ifk21EjJjf/s320/3-27-15-marker-10-liberate-V3-web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-86435630841250681302023-04-12T17:03:00.000-04:002023-04-12T17:03:32.262-04:00Starting today: Museums facing Slavery symposium, 220th anniversary of Gen. T. L'Ouverture's death<h2 style="text-align: center;">International Symposium </h2><h3 style="text-align: center;">"Museums facing Slavery: The Challenge of Reconciling Narratives on a Common Heritage"</h3><h4 style="text-align: center;">Commemoration of the 220th anniversary of the death of General Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) (Died in captivity at the fort of Joux, near Pontarlier in the Doubs)</h4><div style="text-align: left;"><div>The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) and Kartyé Lib Mémoire & Patrimoine Océan Indien are pleased to invite you - via a livestream - to "Museums Facing Slavery: The Challenge of Reconciling Narratives on a Common Heritage," an international symposium taking place from April 12-16, 2023 on Réunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean.</div><div><br /></div><div>Organized by member site Kartyé Lib Mémoire & Patrimoine Océan Indien, in partnership with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the think tank AFROSPECTIVES, the Museum of Black Civilizations, and ICSC, the symposium will bring together museum and heritage professionals, representatives from sites and places of memory, researchers, experts in digital and multimedia technologies, educators, and creators from around the world to discuss the opportunities and challenges museums and heritage sites face in the interpretation and representation of slavery in the societies affected by this history.</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Full program in English <a href="https://www.sitesofconscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PROVISIONAL_2-April_Programme-ENGLISH-Symposium.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Session examples: </div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><i><b>Suzanne Simon Baptiste Louverture, an unknown heroine</b></i> </div><div>Abstract : Toussaint's companion was part of his fight at every moment of his rise in the revolutionary and political sphere of Santo Domingo. A black woman born as a slave on the Breda Plantation in Haut-du-Cap. Wife of Toussaint, mother of his children and his adviser for twenty years.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>Toussaint Louverture: an American destiny 1743-1803 </b></i></div><div>Abstract: The purpose is to situate the revolutionary gesture of Haiti in a more human and global context by insisting, on the one hand, on the heroic dimension of the personal trajectory of the revolutionary General, and, on the other hand, on the global geopolitical vision that inspired his action</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><i><b>Abolition in the Indian Ocean: A Comaparative Study through three Islands (Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Sumatra) </b></i></div><div>Abstract: The historiography of the Indian Ocean is incomplete without the uncomfortable narrative on slavery and its Abolition. Gaps in our knowledge of Abolition are inevitably associated with a lacuna in understanding the many morphs of slavery itself. Museums can play a key role in promoting public understanding of, not only the past, but also the prolonged and complex process of Abolition, its actors and key players.</div></blockquote><div>______________________</div><div><br /></div><div>This symposium is free. You can watch live at https://www.facebook.com/KartyeLibMPOI. I do not know yet if the presentations will be translated into English. <span style="text-align: center;">Full program in English </span><a href="https://www.sitesofconscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PROVISIONAL_2-April_Programme-ENGLISH-Symposium.pdf" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="text-align: center;">.</span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-36144103915216649522023-01-30T05:35:00.002-05:002023-01-30T05:35:35.229-05:00Finding Ceremony, Philadelphia<div style="text-align: left;">Information below regarding dispensasion of human remains held in the Morton Cranium Collection at the Penn Museum (of Pennsylvania University) provided by Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad, Philadelphia journalist, & Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro, professor of history, Rutgers University.</div><h2 style="text-align: left;">"Finding Ceremony" proposal and Update on Feb 2nd, 9 am EST public hearing at Orphan's Court</h2><p>1. This morning, we published a short introduction to and contextualization of the work we propose with Finding Ceremony. It is available for free to read on Medium.com: <a href="https://intersectionist.medium.com/finding-ceremony-for-our-ancestors-held-in-penn-museums-morton-cranial-collection-c7580a98064a" target="_blank">https://intersectionist.medium.com/finding-ceremony-for-our-ancestors-held-in-penn-museums-morton-cranial-collection-c7580a98064a</a></p><p>2. We have made public a shortened version of the Preliminary Proposal for Finding Ceremony that we submitted to Judge Woods-Skipper of Philadelphia's Orphans' Court. You can access the PDF <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MHxH3qMRGuOMoJHt1gcTOYWDWmqwBetr/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p>3. We have updated the signup form to reflect the public hearing date and other developments--this remains the best way for folks to connect with and support this work: <a href="https://forms.gle/bigJi5cGWokVJKn1A">https://forms.gle/bigJi5cGWokVJKn1A</a> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Writing to Judge Woods-Skipper</h3><p>If you would like to convey to the Orphans' Court judge your perspectives, expertise, and disagreement with Penn’s plans, here are the instructions for how to submit the letters:</p><p>Write a letter that details your concerns and perspectives on this matter, and conveys who you are in connection to this issue. You do not need to be an expert on all aspects of this court case in order to share your input with the judge. If you wish to know more, however, you can find some key documents here (reply to this email if you would like further material on any aspect of this work). </p><p>Include the following at the top of your letter: </p><p>Hon. Sheila A. Woods-Skipper, Administrative Judge</p><p>Orphans’ Court Division </p><p>Court of Common Pleas, County of Philadelphia </p><p>Room 519 City Hall</p><p>Philadelphia PA 19107</p><p>Re: Morton Cranial Collection, O.C. 578 NP of 2022</p><p>Include your signature on your letter (if need be, print it out and sign the letter, then scan before sending as an email attachment). </p><p>Email your letter to the judge’s clerk, Lynda Evans: Lynda.Harry@courts.phila.gov and cc Abdul-Aliy, Lyra, and Penn’s attorney: jennifer.nevins@stevenslee.com, lyra.d.monteiro@gmail.com, aliy.muham@gmail.com </p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>There is no fixed deadline for submitting public input of this nature, but the judge’s clerk recommends that letters be submitted prior to the hearing on February 2, so that the Judge will have time to read them and take them into consideration. </b></h4><p>Thank you again for your continued engagement and support for this work! If you have any questions, please reply to this email. </p><p>-Lyra & Abdul-Aliy</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-33119575416583981382023-01-29T13:17:00.005-05:002023-01-29T13:17:38.767-05:00Happy New Year! <p>Dear friends, </p><p>We realize it's the end of January and we are just now wishing you well for 2023, but events are popping up and planning is underway. </p><p>Our biggest news is that progress on the Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park, also known as part of the Richmond's Shockoe Small Area Plan (currently named) "<i>Enslaved Africans Heritage Campus,"</i> is actually, finally moving rapidly. And while we keep our eyes on the goals stated in the very first Shockoe Bottom Alternative Proposal back in 2015 about governance, stewardship and who benefits, there is reason to cheer right now.</p><p>A total of $27 million, over five years, has been allocated to this project from the City of Richmond Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) budget. A local Black, award-winning architect, has been hired to design the master plan for the entire area which could include everything from the Trail of Enslaved Africans south of the river in Manchester through the ten acres in Shockoe Bottom, Devil's Half Acre and African Burial Ground and on up the hill to the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground. The idea is that these projects have been considered separate for too long, that organized coordination will be critical to success.</p><p>An initial master plan advisory group is being formed. An engineering firm has recently completed a comprehensive good plain/flood way analysis of Shockoe Bottom, the results and implications on construction locations will be released, hopefully, in February. With this most current information about what can and cannot be built (or even planted) in the Bottom, real plans can finally be designed and proposed. </p><p>Separate funding, $11 million, has been secured by the city from the Mellon Foundation to establish a visitors center and Shockoe Bottom history interpretive center in the 29,000 square foot ground floor section of the Main Street Station Train Shed. While not finalized, it is likely the city will also assign this project to the Heritage Campus master plan team in keeping with the logic of coordination and to avoid redundancy of services. </p><p>Questions? Please write is at sacredgroundproject@gmail.com.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>NOTE: links to reports and sources referenced in this post will be added shortly.</i></p>Sacred Ground Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16509835002754289781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-90713623134608171832023-01-29T12:24:00.005-05:002023-01-29T12:38:47.306-05:00George Henry White<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDOwHgLYkihb4Q8WyGQYZ8bs7xdyF0MY7Ukq9y85K07DQ6sVwk7fkqtKSd5Kk8sAQ5OnolGDIpyWBoDN7no89xdUhDdM0LSiB7pCLPTct_NFTw7m0C1cWgIN1qYrdroJdaGFN3TupWl9glN7pJm-8OPmDBEe3EHm_Jd0HmeOCFT1XCGdHU1xLwS0C/s799/Photo418035.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="571" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDOwHgLYkihb4Q8WyGQYZ8bs7xdyF0MY7Ukq9y85K07DQ6sVwk7fkqtKSd5Kk8sAQ5OnolGDIpyWBoDN7no89xdUhDdM0LSiB7pCLPTct_NFTw7m0C1cWgIN1qYrdroJdaGFN3TupWl9glN7pJm-8OPmDBEe3EHm_Jd0HmeOCFT1XCGdHU1xLwS0C/s320/Photo418035.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br />Our friends in Tarboro, NC, members of the Phoenix Historical Society, produced this <a href="https://youtu.be/GXbH-HiWqk4" target="_blank">short film</a> on someone we should probably be more aware of, <b>George Henry White</b>. He is remembered as the only Black congressman from North Carolina, and the last Black congressman in the US Congress of the Jim crow era, but also the founder of the People's Savings Bank of Philadelphia and later cofounder of an intentional Black town, <a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=168924" target="_blank">Whitesboro</a>, New Jersey.<p></p><p> https://youtu.be/GXbH-HiWqk4</p><p>The erasure of the details of Reconstruction era progress is something we should also pay attention to as we sort out what's happening in the US today.</p>Sacred Ground Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16509835002754289781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-21017781613482314162022-10-11T09:48:00.000-04:002023-01-03T00:48:52.482-05:0020 YEARS! A celebration and commemoration of learning, reclamation and purpose.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ99T8tLL2KCpvo54gQDDbc_rHg84iZmzAOO4O1ATyFJi1eCaJzex0c9K1u15Fj3ZDFqw2Lk0EnWWDfjAErtd_0mc8z8vbW9T02Y9SSrddTbtkssbM7yq191EcmaBrZznSE9vScHQTSpH9FoiKK3ck_g21KDPLHzTvCv0BxfYUu2Eiqnt9riSAUOKF/s1080/Artwork%204.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ99T8tLL2KCpvo54gQDDbc_rHg84iZmzAOO4O1ATyFJi1eCaJzex0c9K1u15Fj3ZDFqw2Lk0EnWWDfjAErtd_0mc8z8vbW9T02Y9SSrddTbtkssbM7yq191EcmaBrZznSE9vScHQTSpH9FoiKK3ck_g21KDPLHzTvCv0BxfYUu2Eiqnt9riSAUOKF/w640-h640/Artwork%204.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Each year on Oct. 10, the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project (sacredgroundproject.net) of the Virginia Defenders hosts a community gathering at Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground. Oct. 10 was the date in 1800 when the great slave rebellion leader Gabriel was executed at this site. We gather to honor Gabriel and all those who gave their lives in the cause of freedom, to celebrate more than 20 years of learning the history of this sacred ground and to rededicate ourselves to reclaiming and properly memorizing Shockoe Bottom, once the epicenter of the U.S. domestic slave trade.</div><div><p></p><h1><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">We’re also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality!</span></h1><p>This year’s commemoration will feature three nights of projections, light art, and history of Shockoe Bottom leading to the commemoration event on Monday night.</p></div><div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinp1rUCPTnREm3hHynyZZJRJ6BU_RrbvQmAhL_5mEAHnP89dwD0TPz6Z1g5B6gXp6q0-ybH7nTGGXW2squ48zhNibl_nyk9-FATFDrzZr3g-CvbLHkxCzdD5HKHTTmM8TGJvtRPpNH6tRzwuu_v8lILN4_2gYd9BJvbi_oUAgdSXgcF8rKJtagnqdl/s5215/WE%20ARE%20GABRIEL%20POSTER%20SQUARE%20FINAL.png" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5215" data-original-width="5215" height="463" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinp1rUCPTnREm3hHynyZZJRJ6BU_RrbvQmAhL_5mEAHnP89dwD0TPz6Z1g5B6gXp6q0-ybH7nTGGXW2squ48zhNibl_nyk9-FATFDrzZr3g-CvbLHkxCzdD5HKHTTmM8TGJvtRPpNH6tRzwuu_v8lILN4_2gYd9BJvbi_oUAgdSXgcF8rKJtagnqdl/w463-h463/WE%20ARE%20GABRIEL%20POSTER%20SQUARE%20FINAL.png" width="463" /></a></p><p><<<< Park in the VCU Parking lot behind Main St. Station (accessed from Grace or Franklin streets). See the map to the left of this post. </p><p>Enter the event by walking through the projections in the tunnel, north toward the Burial Ground. </p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qKygnz6VCmTStaGhNZmjDRLTfxQEe422O3L5ZCTa-lXMg9wFTpDxF16JwoJF2jPFC8DZeN6etOyCINQ55Hdd-KzRUiq9SNwMrCEkaVN9DczUZRxz-FHMuj9iaZANs7vquL1hqm_jO4_QJW91YYdPQpeJlwOsysVcAn0VUt6hKkhPRgMJpW-akFN6/s1080/Artwork%201.png" style="font-size: 32px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6qKygnz6VCmTStaGhNZmjDRLTfxQEe422O3L5ZCTa-lXMg9wFTpDxF16JwoJF2jPFC8DZeN6etOyCINQ55Hdd-KzRUiq9SNwMrCEkaVN9DczUZRxz-FHMuj9iaZANs7vquL1hqm_jO4_QJW91YYdPQpeJlwOsysVcAn0VUt6hKkhPRgMJpW-akFN6/w477-h477/Artwork%201.png" width="477" /></a> </div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-26119898614259747602022-09-10T15:25:00.000-04:002022-09-10T15:25:07.777-04:00What you don't know you can know! Run Richmond 1619 and what's happening on Oct 10!<p>Run Richmond 1619</p><p>You know how we're all saying "I've got too much on my plate!"? And then just plop another thing on it? Well, there are some things that simply can't be added. </p><p>My knees and hip sockets have confirmed that my running days are way behind me, but somehow not being a part of the Run Richond 1619 events on Sat., September 17, seem just wrong. I found no option for a walk (shame), but there are other ways to participate:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>If I can't or don't want to RUN, I could donate the amount of registration to the organization. https://runsignup.com/Race/Donate/VA/Richmond/RunRichmond1619</li><li>I could also volunteer. They have a link for that. </li><li>And I could come out and cheet the runners along - because WHY NOT celebrate our friends who are celebrating the diasporic presence of Africans in Richmond from 1619 to today by running!?!</li></ol><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-11468711818492947792022-08-18T11:20:00.002-04:002022-08-18T11:20:54.239-04:00Slaveries: global practices, foundational experiences, and outlier forms<p>I am just now watcing this symposium, organized by the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian) also tackling the difficult histories and meanings of slavery as experienced by Africans and Indians as a way to understand the distintness of them and how they help us understand "humanity writ large" then and as it is playing out right now. The first session is a panel discussion between three scholars. After their presentations, each scholar went straight to the heart of what audience members would find problematic. Of the three, Dr. Tiya Miles, most directly states both the risk for this symposium to cause some people, particularly African Americans to feel that this conversation could marginalize the Black experience and "shut down" emotionally to hearing this history. Patience, she then said, is requested as these conversations and studies take place so we progress. Empathy is required of all of us, especially as we are coming through the realities these historic events created for us in the present to figure out how we will make our futures: that out of the details or specifics and nuances and variations of the horrors of slavery and enslavement as practiced and experienced, we will recognize what exists around us. From that recognition we will know the social structures that must be sustained and confront those that must be altered or dismantled and remade. <b>This symposium offers historical information and ways of understanding it.</b></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Other Slavery: Histories of Indian Bondage from New Spain to the Southwestern United States </h3><p>(October 2021) 12 videos</p>
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</div>https://news.vcu.edu/article/2022/05/investigating-richmonds-history-of-displaced-communities<div><br></div><div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-78719256023885331632022-06-15T21:24:00.001-04:002022-06-15T21:24:41.969-04:00Transitional Justice in America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzA5ly_VqfDD0VyTGKPl336vTQyehWaMOXuF1H7s8yPMosJyCi4uFVdXj0FYsE-08CpDwkZBd8-MKOb6XWWSwNe8hMTWJWkm3sGAFfSaVnVhwM8Sr7pLVOA7qhHqZcmX-y7G9-eLQ8_HZFMqOCXiacfikXYJ_R1SVKlZRXGkaM-1lo9YN70Y0xq4uk/s1500/transitional%20justic%20podcast%20promo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzA5ly_VqfDD0VyTGKPl336vTQyehWaMOXuF1H7s8yPMosJyCi4uFVdXj0FYsE-08CpDwkZBd8-MKOb6XWWSwNe8hMTWJWkm3sGAFfSaVnVhwM8Sr7pLVOA7qhHqZcmX-y7G9-eLQ8_HZFMqOCXiacfikXYJ_R1SVKlZRXGkaM-1lo9YN70Y0xq4uk/s320/transitional%20justic%20podcast%20promo.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>As a Sites of Conscience member since 2014, the Sacred Ground Project is pleased to announce the launch of a new podcast series called <a href="https://pod.link/1628874540/episode/f3a0166eefced065f74509c76f647ae7" target="_blank">Transitional Justice in America</a>, a project of the <a href="https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/podcast-transitional-justice-in-america/" target="_blank">International Coalition of Sites of Conscience</a>. Each of the podcast's 6 episodes features conversations between a US-based and an internationally-based social justice advocate. </p><p>The first episode debuts June 16, 2022 and you are invited to the launch webinar - a panel discussion among representatives of three of the participating organizations at 10 am EST: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocuCurTojGNWIT0UDMCW6D_ehkxP9Z2JL" target="_blank">Click here to register</a>.</p><p>"Transitional justice describes the measures countries put into place to address legacies of conflict and human rights abuses. In the absence of any formal transitional justice mechanism in the US, Sites of Conscience are ideal places to facilitate and foster discussion around truth, justice, and reconciliation. To help American sites learn from the work already being done around the world, we paired up US-based Sites of Conscience with Sites of Conscience members in <b>Colombia</b>, <b>The Gambia</b>, <b>South Africa</b>, and <b>Sri Lanka</b> - all countries that have, or are currently undergoing transitional justice processes. In this series, participants will revisit these conversations, sharing what they have learned with you, our listeners. This podcast is a program of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Production by Better Lemon Creative Audio."</p><p>This <a href="Radhika Hettiarachchi from Sri Lankan member Herstories talks about facing difficult histories with Ana Edwards from Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project." target="_blank">link</a> will take you to the project webpage and a schedule for the 6-episode series. In Episode 3 (June 30), <b>Radhika Hettiarachchi</b> from Sri Lankan member <a href="https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/membership/the-herstories-archive/" target="_blank">Herstories</a> talks about facing difficult histories with <b>Ana Edwards</b> from Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project.</p>#TJinAmerica<div>#sacredgroundproject</div><div>#herstoryarchive</div>Sacred Ground Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16509835002754289781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-33148101913369817872022-06-14T00:29:00.003-04:002022-06-14T00:29:46.204-04:00In the news today<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRvW1YRUCzQPrmjDkwcBDGEdZ8coLt7CxuwZTV3JOsf_IX8famY2OCrvFxuRXuWpA69yPJ87P2-0x6CX_7mM9FGTeqrZQOMSGH0xYzDO09nSBFdP-vZiSRVIYnAUj25uhpwhiAqcaiYkz5GaYyeJC4uHvhDkJbciKhw9v9VesTuwG7GO3acLW8rhX/s4032/Photo%20Jun%2012,%2015%2028%2052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaRvW1YRUCzQPrmjDkwcBDGEdZ8coLt7CxuwZTV3JOsf_IX8famY2OCrvFxuRXuWpA69yPJ87P2-0x6CX_7mM9FGTeqrZQOMSGH0xYzDO09nSBFdP-vZiSRVIYnAUj25uhpwhiAqcaiYkz5GaYyeJC4uHvhDkJbciKhw9v9VesTuwG7GO3acLW8rhX/w640-h480/Photo%20Jun%2012,%2015%2028%2052.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L-R: Ana Edwards (Sacred Ground Project), Mayor Levar Stoney, Livi Booker (Maggie L. Walker Governor's School, reading the text of the newly unveiled historic highway marker), Lenora McQueen (Descendant, Friends of SHABG), Dr. Colita Nichols Fairfax (Dept. of Historic Resources), Rev. Dr. Rodney Waller (Pastor of First African Baptist Church) and Cynthia Newbille (City of Richmond Council President)</td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="text-align: left;">Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground (1816-1879)</h2><p>https://vpm.org/news/articles/32939/african-burying-ground-historical-marker-unveiled-in-richmond</p><p>https://richmond.com/news/local/it-s-a-good-beginning---historical-marker-placed-at-shockoe-hill-african-burying/article_2dee5a42-7ad0-5375-a089-1ca8290f47b0.html?utm_source=richmond.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter-templates%2Fbreaking&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_content=28146f791e97e858f1559a1cee8a361d0073d3db</p><p>https://www.nbc12.com/2022/06/12/historic-highway-marker-unveiled-shockoe-hill-african-burying-ground/</p><p>https://richmond.com/livi-booker-a-student-at-maggie-walker-governors-school-reads-the-shockoe-hill-african-burying/video_29c46056-bb34-55ee-a99a-d6c99100993e.html</p><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">East End and Evergreen Cemeteries (1897-present)</h2><p>https://www.nbc12.com/video/2022/06/13/drone-helps-researchers-find-unmarked-graves-east-end-cemetery/</p><p><br /></p>Sacred Ground Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16509835002754289781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-39452840678003046732022-02-27T20:51:00.003-05:002022-02-27T20:51:11.971-05:00As Black History Month comes to a close...<b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_ZejWiP4cbzYha7f9oGzSrH98ofPBXKL8rV28Pu6el-qWYL-y3D3i7uy8R76gG-YycNYK4aegvZ9ekF0ozxgS1ecROCbu2ntt9Bp1qGaODb89NLGLdnqVyWFGepqCPI4iGFZyRaZN_va92ZjWJ_CC3s_BWlz1USe9lpby9GX7GwhRsrHUDrjvM6v2=s4160" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_ZejWiP4cbzYha7f9oGzSrH98ofPBXKL8rV28Pu6el-qWYL-y3D3i7uy8R76gG-YycNYK4aegvZ9ekF0ozxgS1ecROCbu2ntt9Bp1qGaODb89NLGLdnqVyWFGepqCPI4iGFZyRaZN_va92ZjWJ_CC3s_BWlz1USe9lpby9GX7GwhRsrHUDrjvM6v2=w240-h320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></b><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>Black History continues!</b></h2>This photo is of a monument in Barbados to commemorate Emancipation Day using the image that the people of Barbados refer to as the man who led a major insurrection in 1816. Bussa was African-born, enslaved on this island colony of the UK on the Bayley plantation. As with Gabriel, not much is known about his life until the rebellion took place and like Gabriel and his friends and allies, he gave his life in the attempt to end slavery. While this effort was unsuccessful,the UK did finally abolish slavery in its colonies in 1834. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WqeLy3kWCxRJV6nrDK-pV0lcIWLMo38A/view?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank">Slideshow</a> "The Significance of Shockoe Bottom and the Memorial Park Proposal, 1695-2015"<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByGRw5JOG3LPSS1tM0hwVHJfa2c/view?usp=drivesdk&resourcekey=0-Qis86SseC8GX8m1hl-oEIA" target="_blank">Handout</a> "The Story of Gabriel"<br /><div><br /></div><div>On Sat. February 26, this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJU3VioX5V0" target="_blank">program</a> highlighted cemeteries from across the country. The Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground was featured via this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMzjIhbvQVE&feature=emb_logo" target="_blank">video</a> from The Cultural Landscape Foundation.<div><br /></div><div>Two-part video series done for the American Civil War Museum - Discussion between Joseph Rogers and Ana Edwards: <a href="https://youtu.be/k9sNTuPtzQI" target="_blank">Richmond's Slave Trade, Part 1</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/4w8qvvNB0xY" target="_blank">Part 2</a></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-57266379068057961292022-01-09T20:21:00.005-05:002022-01-11T17:06:54.256-05:00City Council to Vote on additonal Funding for Heritage Campus & MuseumOn Monday, January 10, the regular meeting of Richmond City Council is scheduled to approve two ordinances that will add money to the development of Shockoe Bottom. Click here for a copy of the<b style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jttv9OScgh0dxWnl2rGguvTs8jEYR5Je/view?usp=sharing">Jan. 10, 2022 Agenda</a>.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1avLMOUhDiGGeVRIReTac5AhvHoOIbu3l/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Click here to read the comments emailed to city council before 10:00 am Jan. 10, 2022. </a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Item 1. ORD. 2021-270</b>, adds $1 million to the Heritage Campus for the purpose of procuring design services and associated community engagement. (See p. 4 of the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jttv9OScgh0dxWnl2rGguvTs8jEYR5Je/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Agenda</a>)<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiYBx9NeTdnxp25EJXUmqbBQnYnxd95ko5X4barOWawOuHGcLecHe9MScvkWrJ1v9eMwAWbVpd7qynUvXO1yFYZkp3Pn53dGvPfnRynqV98ma1_qvkc9UxGE4xTNdBuUu06CStX2-ac0kWNeK73Q1Bbo65ZHoJclRTqi4902BsSilNrL69RFr_SBj9=s2147" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Item 1. ORD. 2021-270, adds $1 million to the Heritage Campus for the purpose of procuring design services and associated community engagement." border="0" data-original-height="1673" data-original-width="2147" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiYBx9NeTdnxp25EJXUmqbBQnYnxd95ko5X4barOWawOuHGcLecHe9MScvkWrJ1v9eMwAWbVpd7qynUvXO1yFYZkp3Pn53dGvPfnRynqV98ma1_qvkc9UxGE4xTNdBuUu06CStX2-ac0kWNeK73Q1Bbo65ZHoJclRTqi4902BsSilNrL69RFr_SBj9=w640-h498" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <br /><b>Item 5. ORD. 2021-337</b>, gives $300,000 to the National Slavery Museum Foundation for the support of planning and fundraising activities for the establishment of a national slavery museum at the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail / Devil’s Half-Acre site in Richmond. (See p. 6 of the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jttv9OScgh0dxWnl2rGguvTs8jEYR5Je/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Agenda</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9PPhyw5vbmvmoQzXOiawRJV6oEP34IEHLEz1CEG-3FpCT6Wk2E8YXlPnal52hrkw9_nN_0xdpowbqDSs9PR4p6Dc9X2EfmCRHZCRX8WlwcfOzboVwz6rkIuq0-lOLWC4o1Yqvjnl5Us484eHkdWUm9rfqXo_kjYYHxGpaQymI7Rb8DuGXr8C6Fsz0=s1984" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Item 5. ORD. 2021-337, gives $300,000 to the National Slavery Museum Foundation for the support of planning and fundraising activities for the establishment of a national slavery museum at the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail / Devil’s Half-Acre site in Richmond." border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="1984" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9PPhyw5vbmvmoQzXOiawRJV6oEP34IEHLEz1CEG-3FpCT6Wk2E8YXlPnal52hrkw9_nN_0xdpowbqDSs9PR4p6Dc9X2EfmCRHZCRX8WlwcfOzboVwz6rkIuq0-lOLWC4o1Yqvjnl5Us484eHkdWUm9rfqXo_kjYYHxGpaQymI7Rb8DuGXr8C6Fsz0=w640-h408" width="640" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Ana Edwards will be addressing the council meeting to raise three points:<br /><br />1 - City government must begin to promote real transparency in how decisions are being made about the future of Shockoe Bottom.<br /><br />2 - A space must be made in the decision-making process for representatives of the community who have demonstrated a longtime commitment to the reclamation and proper memorialization of this sacred ground.<br /><br />3 - City government must prioritize the Black community for receiving the financial benefits that result from the creation of the Heritage Campus and any museum or interpretive center. (See the recommendations in our <a href="https://preservationvirginia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Shockoe-Bottom-Equitable-Economic-Development-Resource-Guide.pdf" target="_blank">Equitable Economic Redevelopment Resource Guide</a>)<div><br /><h4 style="text-align: center;">We are asking you to attend the 6 pm meeting in person with us. If this is not possible, please watch it online. Instructions for submitting comments are below.</h4><div><br /></div>To access the meeting, you have the following options:<br /><br />1. Watch the meeting via Microsoft Teams by clicking the link below.<br /><a href="https://tinyurl.com/rvacouncil-formal-20220110">https://tinyurl.com/rvacouncil-formal-20220110</a><br /><br />2. Listen to the meeting audio only from your phone by dialing *67-804-316-9457 and when prompted, enter conference ID: 463 098 532#.<br /><br />3. Watch the meeting livestream at <a href="https://richmondva.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx">https://richmondva.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx</a><br /><br />4. 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Interested citizens who wish to take advantage of either option, must do so prior to 10:00 a.m., on the meeting date, by calling the Office of the City Clerk at (804) 646-7955 and selecting option 3, or sending comments to <a href="mailto:CityClerksOffice@rva.gov">CityClerksOffice@rva.gov</a>. All written comments received prior to the deadline will be provided to all members of the Council prior to the beginning of the meeting and will be included in the record of the meeting. All Richmond City Council meetings are live-streamed and archived on Legistar.<br /><br />“*The Office of the City Clerk requests that participants provide digital copies of any handouts intended for the body in advance of meetings via email at <a href="mailto:cityclerksoffice@rva.gov">cityclerksoffice@rva.gov</a>.<br /><br />“Masks are required if attending in person.”<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>If you have any questions, please reply to this email or call the Defenders at 804-644-5834.</b></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-61872415883795338432021-10-10T12:08:00.004-04:002021-10-24T14:51:23.060-04:00Thank you!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project present</span></div><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">The 19th Annual Gabriel Gathering</span></h1><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://www.sacredgroundproject.net/p/19th-annual-gabriel-gathering.html" target="_blank">Reclaiming Sacred Spaces</a></span></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">More than 90 of you came out to recognize the reclamation and restoration of Richmond's Historic Black Cemeteries and honor the life and memory of Gabriel and the 25 others who gave their lives in the attempt to gain freedom on the 221st anniversary of their sacrifice!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Beautiful weather graced the proceedings from 5 pm to 6:30 pm, last Sunday, October 10, 2021 </p><h3 style="text-align: center;">at the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground</h3><p style="text-align: center;">16th & E. Broad St. 23219</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVuC0A9NDBSRePnAIIcZCgElU-sRgmQdJ634vAK7Oicr6cAO7XYO3gtUBL-ocqc37Q5aU8ZqQwcz4rGweeHM7fjzhsVo_KJJdnkLui9UMIcrgjvzGz0qn4SlLDORUleI4TxkT0rokO4Q/s1200/Palmer_email_20201010_18th_commemoration_Gabriels_Rebellion_Richmond_VA_153447.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLVuC0A9NDBSRePnAIIcZCgElU-sRgmQdJ634vAK7Oicr6cAO7XYO3gtUBL-ocqc37Q5aU8ZqQwcz4rGweeHM7fjzhsVo_KJJdnkLui9UMIcrgjvzGz0qn4SlLDORUleI4TxkT0rokO4Q/w400-h266/Palmer_email_20201010_18th_commemoration_Gabriels_Rebellion_Richmond_VA_153447.jpg" width="400" /></a></h3><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://fb.me/e/dqzoJKlWi" target="_blank">Click here for the Event Page on Facebook</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-44731971839033072872021-09-28T22:39:00.007-04:002021-09-28T23:10:17.293-04:00Oct 10 , New Signs and a Freedom Monument on Brown's Island<h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Join us on Sunday, October 10, 2021, at the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground. <a href="https://fb.me/e/dqzoJKlWi" target="_blank">RSVP at the Facebook event and share!</a></h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1t3rustAG5t8BPaTeMqjyFIsmydlIYeTAzbIPmCFNcRxXiLGND4YLH5-Xl5DAtfWWoP4utf5472O7MmXdMqeuwz-7b3sGS4WgU-CcWd25lvj8b2XBWzNIdY7rv6WmQhOpYeFVbuXQ6_c/s1200/Palmer_email_20201010_18th_commemoration_Gabriels_Rebellion_Richmond_VA_153447.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1t3rustAG5t8BPaTeMqjyFIsmydlIYeTAzbIPmCFNcRxXiLGND4YLH5-Xl5DAtfWWoP4utf5472O7MmXdMqeuwz-7b3sGS4WgU-CcWd25lvj8b2XBWzNIdY7rv6WmQhOpYeFVbuXQ6_c/w640-h426/Palmer_email_20201010_18th_commemoration_Gabriels_Rebellion_Richmond_VA_153447.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo (c) Brian Palmer 2020</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h3>Earlier this summer, new signs directing people to the Burial Ground and Devil's Half Acre went up on 17th/Oliver Hill near Marshall, on Broad at 17th, on 17th south of Broad, and Franklin at 15th.</h3></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh5h5WavT5XCR5Ysztj3i-RcGijSXu8Ed7meHc1vKb5DqmuY63orSdGnMIpACi58wfciNy3KXZGG7iAuOC7qHnqPPHUIi8ssVHctdeDdtuxEkfTi5PRcyeRYUTE41jASFO-d3QAEoxiFk/s890/newdirectionsignABG.jpg"><img alt="Photo of sign on E. Broad St. near 17th St. directing one to the African Burial Ground and Devil's Half Acre sites." border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="890" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh5h5WavT5XCR5Ysztj3i-RcGijSXu8Ed7meHc1vKb5DqmuY63orSdGnMIpACi58wfciNy3KXZGG7iAuOC7qHnqPPHUIi8ssVHctdeDdtuxEkfTi5PRcyeRYUTE41jASFO-d3QAEoxiFk/w320-h320/newdirectionsignABG.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo (c) Ana Edwards 2021</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h3> Virginia's long planned Emancipation Proclamation Monument was unveiled on Brown's Island following a 10 am ceremony on Wednesday, September 22, 2021. </h3></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAazU6K5Dg2kWCRnmM3NwBrZxzvVzg6hyC4mi4AJ0wc_U_IpDaW4Euf7w4brQVcLM57NqZD0CKyjaXh_aDi9Tk_E6PyJ6q9u3V_-YPkQxwTbwXrXkWoVTaG0hOCWFZlfk6PlyTRigcEk/s2699/PXL_20210922_181857308.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img alt="Photo of the Emancipation and Freedom Monument unveiling on Brown's Island, Richmond, Virginia, on September 22, 2021." border="0" data-original-height="2699" data-original-width="1799" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAazU6K5Dg2kWCRnmM3NwBrZxzvVzg6hyC4mi4AJ0wc_U_IpDaW4Euf7w4brQVcLM57NqZD0CKyjaXh_aDi9Tk_E6PyJ6q9u3V_-YPkQxwTbwXrXkWoVTaG0hOCWFZlfk6PlyTRigcEk/w426-h640/PXL_20210922_181857308.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo (c) Ana Edwards 2021 </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0BNsbHtGveEpyQ3H9HrS8b67r-KSesWrsUPINPDe6gdvUh8fYFXRiPGn8-6K8YKTuhsQM3p7H12FrJCOKQVC2oQffh-g-A_TuRIdhheM0ZYByPHBcf9hV_L9-9R82OpkRI5CcYluhcG0/s1939/PXL_20210922_153008775.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Emancipation and Freedom Monument, black and white detail of full image, taken following the unveiling ceremony on September 22, 2021, on Brown's Island, Richmond, Virginia." border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1939" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0BNsbHtGveEpyQ3H9HrS8b67r-KSesWrsUPINPDe6gdvUh8fYFXRiPGn8-6K8YKTuhsQM3p7H12FrJCOKQVC2oQffh-g-A_TuRIdhheM0ZYByPHBcf9hV_L9-9R82OpkRI5CcYluhcG0/w640-h360/PXL_20210922_153008775.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo (c) Ana Edwards 2021 </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-18754190249627740492021-09-08T12:33:00.004-04:002021-09-08T12:34:51.267-04:00Shockoe Alliance to Review Comments on Small Area Plan<p>Today at 3 pm the Shockoe Alliance will review the comments received from the public between July 19 and August 27, 2021 on the Draft Small Area Plan. </p><p>Thank you to those who submitted comments and a special thank you to those whose comments support the Memorial Park and asked important questions about governance, protections, archaeology, and equitable economic benefit.</p><p>To get a link to attend the meeting this afternoon and for additional Information, please contact kimberly.chen@richmondgov.com or by phone at 804-646-6364.</p><p><br /></p><p>Upcoming:</p><p>September 11, 2021, Monthly Clean Up at Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground.</p><p>October 10, 2021, we will host the 19th Annual Gabriel Gathering at the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-72327459543196456632021-09-08T11:31:00.003-04:002021-09-10T18:51:47.266-04:00The Downing of Lee in Richmond, Virginia<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hi_gZE-8lpPh7TS5JwBZB1fWMJFZut9e/view?usp=sharing" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click here to read the statement by the Virginia Defenders<br />on the taking down of the Richmond statue of Robert E. Lee</span></a></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmARIrEk_AnM_wiedo-ydSTU4ubawdMdBivUtWQwC6IVXv5INkGwPftE2C7bZlzi6BRR6MHi2hzS_DqyBG8mfO6RN62MhrUNaKH-R4Ck6r9Y36fuMfstsguwDLPOLlYXgP-R5CNzQAZQ4/s2048/20210908_085607_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1925" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmARIrEk_AnM_wiedo-ydSTU4ubawdMdBivUtWQwC6IVXv5INkGwPftE2C7bZlzi6BRR6MHi2hzS_DqyBG8mfO6RN62MhrUNaKH-R4Ck6r9Y36fuMfstsguwDLPOLlYXgP-R5CNzQAZQ4/w602-h640/20210908_085607_2.jpg" width="602" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;">September 8, 2021</h3><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlX7IqJ8Hdlo7_adbPs_VHc0DKJ04GfroEN-2-7wDPWHCz752WMKG9c21vLpQWK55RwPQak1QscNkKT_DafiDpYn-79d6IytwND7g0ER5wvtuKQqEdXMsqUqYZqghIniK6wqUHDqHWHv8/s2429/PXL_20210908_125633001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2429" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlX7IqJ8Hdlo7_adbPs_VHc0DKJ04GfroEN-2-7wDPWHCz752WMKG9c21vLpQWK55RwPQak1QscNkKT_DafiDpYn-79d6IytwND7g0ER5wvtuKQqEdXMsqUqYZqghIniK6wqUHDqHWHv8/w640-h360/PXL_20210908_125633001.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p> </p><h3 style="text-align: center;">September 7, 2021</h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0a5BzANb6_I0CbTMtHug7uCg56-vASgszmBXSywLJ3PLzsPsGHEEnQMqBl6oZvfxTIIEPsOKLkNH1OsiRXE8tj6ohR6BRXDE5ZJELbRqdOO_FcZF_c6l0N_mebeG8XRc26w9vZEy6sbA/s4032/PXL_20210907_215252277.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0a5BzANb6_I0CbTMtHug7uCg56-vASgszmBXSywLJ3PLzsPsGHEEnQMqBl6oZvfxTIIEPsOKLkNH1OsiRXE8tj6ohR6BRXDE5ZJELbRqdOO_FcZF_c6l0N_mebeG8XRc26w9vZEy6sbA/w640-h480/PXL_20210907_215252277.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, by what process and with whom was there agreement that the 80+ memorials, the Marcus-David Peters Circle sign and the community garden were to be dismantled and claimed as artifacts? </span></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Defenders' first blow was struck in 2007: </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2hoIbaDM8w8SKaPMMYC9DREoEz-QXiHoyZhXqQSF62aYQT0lGGwd7bUWc14WsXU8gyP2pMpHTFOD9aFRdathMAty2RCDK1Go1eH7Gf6xBcFlKcsxjJNSOgo6NN1RQ7_0EcZAcLRNldc/s2818/PXL_20210908_130236821.MP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2616" data-original-width="2818" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2hoIbaDM8w8SKaPMMYC9DREoEz-QXiHoyZhXqQSF62aYQT0lGGwd7bUWc14WsXU8gyP2pMpHTFOD9aFRdathMAty2RCDK1Go1eH7Gf6xBcFlKcsxjJNSOgo6NN1RQ7_0EcZAcLRNldc/w640-h594/PXL_20210908_130236821.MP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110387257556621696.post-7125692580052715682021-08-29T23:53:00.000-04:002021-08-29T23:53:38.644-04:00Shockoe Small Area Plan public comment period ends. So, what's next?<p>Well, friends, there are several steps in the actual creation of the Small Area Plan's Heritage Campus, including the nine-acre Memorial Park, including review by the city's Planning Commission and passage by City Council. It is critical that your council person knows that you support the Memorial Park <i><b>and </b></i>the Small Area Plan. </p><p>And, there are several issues that will need your continued support to ensure they happen: </p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Archaeology</li><li>Protective zoning</li><li>Criteria for design and selection of design and construction team</li><li>Who will own and manage the area</li><li>How will the Black/descendant community voice assume its authority and interpretation? </li><li>How will the economic benefits of the creation of this Heritage Campus actually come to the Black/descendant community?</li></ol><p></p><p>We encourage you to continue to review the plan and send your thoughts to the Department of Economic Development via the <a href="https://www.rva.gov/planning-development-review/shockoe-small-area-plan#:~:text=Download%20the%20Draft,on%20Survey%20Monkey%C2%A0" target="_blank">links on the city webpage</a>. The formal public comment period may be over, however neither the Memorial Park nor the overall plan are a "done deal." We can't just stay home and relax! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">NOTE: If the city site will no longer accept your comments, please send them to sacredgroundproject@gmail.com and be sure to copy your city councilperson. We will forward them to the appropriate person in the Economic Development department and Mayor's office. </h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com