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Fighting to Save African-American Cemeteries
For more than 10 years, Richmond, Va.’s oldest municipal burial ground for people of African descent has been covered over by an active parking lot owned by Virginia Commonwealth University. The dead cannot speak, so Richmond’s African-American community has been fighting to remove the parking lot and protect its ancestral legacy. Richmond, former capital of…
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Chasing the Past in Egypt
Finally, I made it to Kemet! Ehh … wait, I mean Egypt … I guess? It’s hard to accept that only remnants and distant memories of Kemet, the ancient civilization now called the Arab Republic of Egypt, remain. (The original people called their country Kemet, a word literally meaning “nation of the black people.”) Participating…
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Excavating Egypt's Black History
Last month I traveled to Egypt as a member of the pioneering ASA Restoration Project to volunteer in the South Asasif Conservation (SAC) Project. Since 2006, the SAC Project has been excavating three 25th Dynasty (eighth to seventh centuries B.C.) tombs (see my tomb video tour) of Kushite nobles in Luxor, Egypt. This dynasty reunified…
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The Facebook/MySpace Divide
The Facebook-versus-MySpace question has never been an important one for me. As much as I dislike digital dependency, Facebook is a necessity. How else would I find out who got dumped or who got drunk? How would I know what events are coming up? I hate to admit that I even use BlackBerry’s Facebook mobile…
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