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Menokin to host premiere of ‘Long Shadow’ documentary

In this powerful documentary, the filmmakers, both privileged daughters of the South, who are haunted by their families’ slave-owning pasts, passionately seek the hidden truth and the untold stories of how America—guided by the South’s powerful political influence— steadily,...

Calvary Baptist Black History Celebration

https://youtu.be/uoN0mEuFmCU In celebration of Black History Month, the leaders of Calvary Baptist ran this fantastic program yesterday, Sunday, February 24, 2019. Do not miss performances from the Children's Church and the African Slave Band, and see who was this year's...

MLK Day 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH12iTq1kWs Ms. Ciara Amber Wake, graduate student of communications at Loyola University in Baltimore, delivers the ABCs of Moving Forward in 2018 earlier today at Camp Piankatank in Hartfield, VA, as derived from the sermons and teachings of Dr. martin...

Documenting slave graveyards

by Bessida White -  For many African-Americans, the search for the burial grounds of their slave-era ancestors can be challenging. Several members of Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society (MPAAGHS) have worked diligently to document their family slave graveyards....

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