Evening Links on TWiB! | 3.21.13
Slave Burial Sites
- Fordham University launched the Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans which allowing visitors to locate long forgotten slave graveyards across the United States.
- Jada Pinkett Smith wants to shake up the magazine world and put white women on the covers of black women’s magazines. I really hope they elicit “beauty shop” secrets from Anne Hathaway.
- Rethinking the Ghetto as a product of capitalist growth in America.
- Echoes of Steubenville: A 13-year-old victim of sexual assault has endured further harassment from students and athletes. Again, what does it take to stop this behavior?
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Dacia Mitchell is a writer and domestic warrior based in Oakland, CA. When she isn't co-hosting and slinging facts at #TWIBRadio, she's mashing her keyboard to complete her dissertation in American Studies at NYU. She tweets.
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Looks like they found one in Philly. http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-19/news/37846901_1_kelvin-jeremiah-empty-pha-burial-ground
“Behind a chain-link fence in the 300 block of West Queen Lane in Germantown, a shuttered, 16-story public housing high-rise looms over an empty block and barren playground.
The Queen Lane apartment building has been locked up since 2011. It was supposed to have been demolished and replaced with rowhouses by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
But the $27 million project is stalled as PHA remains locked in a standoff with neighbors.
This block is not just any block. It’s the site of a potter’s field for “Strangers, Negroes and Mulattoes,” some of whom were buried there as far back as 1775.
Before the project can move forward, PHA has to complete an archaeological survey to get a more precise reading of the boundaries of the burial ground.
Archaeologists call it “ground truthing.” Using sophisticated radar and simple shovels, they are sifting for bones to determine where the “Strangers Burying Ground” begins and ends.”