Shannon Evans Wins Oakley Award!
Please give a huge congratulations to our very own vice president, Shannon Evans, for receiving the Oakley Award from the Board of Trustees of the Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS).
Cemeteries
State-Sponsored Erasure of Historic Sites in Virginia
In this republished ProPublica article, Seth Freed Wessler explains that, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites, the expansion of a Microsoft data center inspired authorities in Virginia to desecrate a historic cemetery.
Just a Few Lines
Tavon worked with the MZMF to build the WebAtlas of African American Burial Grounds, and this blog post introduces our supporters to a fine young man who played an important role in the AHA grant.