We examine the 330+year relationship between African Americans & @williamandmary from slavery through Jim Crow & beyond. #thelemonproject
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Join us at the Rockefeller Library on Tuesday, Oct. 15th for highlights from their collections and ours! This promises to be an exciting opportunity! Free & open to all. @WMLibraries @colonialwmsburg
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Call for proposals for the 15th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium
Deadline Extended to October 14, 2024: The Lemon Project team has extended the deadline for proposal submissions for the 15th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium. Check out the details and submit your proposal at wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/an…
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SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 14, 2025! 🎂
Join us in transcribing the AFAM Perspectives Collection @Crowd_LOC!
📽️Watch the Live Broadcast
💻Crowdsource with the Library of Congress
🍰Celebrate and Win the Great DDay Bakeoff
Info & registration @ douglassday.org
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Thurs 6pm at LVA - 60th Anniversary Commemoration of the Desegregation of Brunswick High School. Panel conversation with 8 of the surviving former students now known as the Brunswick 15. Moderated by Brian Daugherity, history prof @VCU. Free but register lva-virginia.libcal.com/even…
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Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience showcases visual art’s dynamic and potent role in African American history and culture.
![A color image of the Reckoning book cover. The cover displays an image of Bisa Butler's "I Go To Prepare A Place For You" quilt. (2021) The words across the cover read [RECKONING: PROTEST. DEFIANCE. RESILIENCE | Rizzoli Electa]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GWkNOsgXEAMyua0.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A color image of the Reckoning book cover. The cover displays an image of Bisa Butler's "I Go To Prepare A Place For You" quilt. (2021) The words across the cover read [RECKONING: PROTEST. DEFIANCE. RESILIENCE | Rizzoli Electa]
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(Almost) full circle: Storyteller Dylan Pritchett to return to Colonial Williamsburg trib.al/3y1dAqk
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Join us on June 18th for W&M's fourth annual Juneteenth celebration. Held in the Sadler Center, the celebration will feature poetry, music and other live performances and is free & open to all.
news.wm.edu/2024/05/31/a-cel…
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TONIGHT 5:30PM Volunteer with LVA in our #virtual #workshop, Making History! #Transcribe handwritten pages & historical #newspapers by reading the text & typing it into digital form. This is a free event. Registration required cfengage.org/opportunity/a0C…
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Join us for W&M's 2024 Juneteenth Celebration
news.wm.edu/2024/05/31/a-cel…
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Join the Lemon Project & the Smithsonian NMAAHC's Robert Frederick Smith Explore Your Family History Center for Lemon's Learners Black History Matters Summer Camp on June 24-25. This free camp is open to 20 middle-school aged students. Register by May 24. go.wm.edu/2QKpzD
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Kinfolkology x Community: Richmond, VA is a conversation and workshop about data stewardship, genealogy, ancestral memory, and reparations. Join us on May 5th! eventbrite.com/e/kinfolkolog…
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Our BLSA students were also featured in @13NewsNow's story highlighting the Hearth Memorial and the important work that is being done by The Lemon Project.
Members of the Lemon Project team spoke with 13 News Now about Hearth and the enslaved people who built William & Mary. "The Lemon Project | Reclaiming the names of the enslaved people who built William & Mary"
13newsnow.com/article/news/l…
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Are you a current W&M student? There are two scholarship opportunities available for you!
Links to both applications are in our bio in the Linktree!
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Virtual registration is still open! Among many important offerings, today's schedule includes "Voices of Integration: Black Students from the Class of 1969," a panel featuring the experiences of Black students in the first fully integrated graduating class in @WJCCSchools
Join us for the 14th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium today! Virtual registration is open at wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/an… #thelemonproject
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Happening here at the School of Education, March 22-23, and also offered online via Zoom. This year's theme is “Taking Our Time: Healing Through Black History, Family and Communities.”
Check out this W&M news article on the 14th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium and make sure that you register to attend! news.wm.edu/2024/03/11/14th-…
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"Black students from the first graduating class to integrate Williamsburg-James City County schools are sharing their stories. They are part of the Class of 1969 and the focus of a documentary ... [that] tells the first-hand experiences of former students, teachers, and parents."
This documentary will be featured at the 14ht Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium on Friday, March 21. 13newsnow.com/article/news/l…
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Sign up for the webinar here: sewanee-edu.zoom.us/webinar/…
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Help us launch, celebrate, recognize @aydeethegreat's latest album! Come to listen, stay for conversation. Food catered by Charlottesville's Soul Food Joint Restaurant
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Highland’s research started an all-encompassing project. This new essay by @mxdibe shares the story of the processes that resulted when @SaraBonHarper started exploring questions about the site.
How do historians tell new, more truthful stories about complicated historical sites? @mxdibe shares the process of "Reinterpreting James @MonroeHighland" in light of new discoveries about the past.
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Join the discussion with @DrJajuan, @Nadasue & @TFamilytreegirl iaamuseum.org/event/universi… @seeking_uva @descendantsuva