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	<title>River District News &#187; Negro Burial Ground</title>
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		<title>lawsuit filed to study VCU parking lot, slave burial ground</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2010/01/05/lawsuit-filed-to-study-vcu-parking-lot-slave-burial-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacqui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Richmond City Councilman Sa&#8217;ad El-Amin filed a lawsuit this morning against Virginia Department of Historic Resources Director Kathleen Kilpatrick.
From the RTD:
 
The suit seeks to order the department to conduct an archaeological dig of a Virginia Commonwealth University parking lot at 1541 E. Broad St. to determine the true boundaries of a cemetery for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Me in the Bottom</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2009/10/19/meet-me-in-the-bottom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacqui</dc:creator>
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 &#8221;Meet Me in the Bottom- The Struggle to Reclaim Richmond&#8217;s African Burial Ground&#8221; premieres October 23 at the Grace Street Theater at 7:00 p.m.
The Burial Ground for Negroes (ca. 1750-1816) is located north of Broad Street, between 15th and 16th Streets. It is the oldest municipal cemetery for enslaved and free Blacks known toexist in the Richmond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VCU repaves over slave burial ground- the flip side</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2009/08/12/vcu-repaves-over-slave-burial-ground-the-flip-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacqui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following last week&#8217;s protests, Style Weekly presents an argument in favor of the repaving of the parking lots which lie over the negro burial ground. The reasoning? Repaving may help protect the artifacts that are buried beneath the asphalt.
The Shockoe Bottom parking lot may have caused a stir, but some people say the unintended consequence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;VCU is paving over the dead&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2009/08/03/vcu-is-paving-over-the-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2009/08/03/vcu-is-paving-over-the-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacqui</dc:creator>
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The paving over of the negro burial ground at 15th&#38;Broad, delayed last year after protests, is under way today. Kenneth Yates posted the following message along with pictures of the repaving.
We will not know for sure until a proper archeological excavation has been done. This is now made that much more difficult with another layer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>finding Lumpkin&#8217;s Jail and locating the Burial Ground for Negroes</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2009/02/25/finding-lumpkins-jail-and-locating-the-burial-ground-for-negroes/</link>
		<comments>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2009/02/25/finding-lumpkins-jail-and-locating-the-burial-ground-for-negroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacqui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Historical Society invites the community to attend Hidden Things Brought to Light: Finding Lumpkin&#8217;s Jail and Locating the Burial Ground for Negroes. The free event will be held this Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. &#8211; 1:00 p.m.
&#8220;The goal of this conference is to provide a venue where members of the public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You are parking your car in a lot that was built over a historic cemetery.</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/12/07/you-are-parking-your-car-in-a-lot-that-was-built-over-a-historic-cemetery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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From a flyer being left on cars in the VCU parking lot. For more info, check out the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project.



From the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project, a timeline of Burial Ground Reclamation Activities:

TIMELINE of Burial Ground Reclamation Activities
From 1992 to the present many individuals and organizations have worked to ensure that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6th Annual Commemoration of Gabriel&#8217;s Rebellion and the Burial Ground for Negroes</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/10/03/6th-annual-commemoration-of-gabriels-rebellion-and-the-burial-ground-for-negroes/</link>
		<comments>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/10/03/6th-annual-commemoration-of-gabriels-rebellion-and-the-burial-ground-for-negroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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The 6th Annual Commemoration of Gabriel&#8217;s Rebellion and the Burial Ground for Negroes has been announced for Friday, October 10, at Asbury United Methodist Church (324 N. 29th Street). Hosted by the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project, The Defenders for Freedom Justice &#038; Equality and the United Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) Prosser-Truth Division [...]]]></description>
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		<title>council to look into acquiring Negro Burial Ground</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/09/20/council-to-look-into-acquiring-negro-burial-ground/</link>
		<comments>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/09/20/council-to-look-into-acquiring-negro-burial-ground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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The agenda for the next city council meeting (9/22) has items of local interest:
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		<title>Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission to hold open public forums on memorializing Richmond Negro Burial Grounds</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/09/12/richmond-city-council-slave-trail-commission-to-hold-open-public-forums-on-memorializing-richmond-negro-burial-grounds-in-shockoe-bottom/</link>
		<comments>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/09/12/richmond-city-council-slave-trail-commission-to-hold-open-public-forums-on-memorializing-richmond-negro-burial-grounds-in-shockoe-bottom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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The Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission will hold open forum public community forum meetings to hear and discuss ideas from Richmond citizens on how to properly memorialize the site of an historic Richmond Negro Burial Grounds located in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond. Land on this site was recently identified and set aside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN announces 2008 Golden Hammer special award winners</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/09/09/acorn-announced-2008-golden-hammer-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/09/09/acorn-announced-2008-golden-hammer-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods (ACORN) has announced the Golden Hammer winners for 2008. The winners of the 6 different awards are: Rachel Flynn,  Calder Loth, Historic Housing LLC (David White, Larry Schifflett, Louis Salomonsky), Three Strands Management (Gray Oliver, Cynthia Oliver and Tory Smith), Better Housing Coalition (T.K. Somanath), and Shanna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>location of Burial Ground for Negroes confirmed</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/07/26/location-of-burial-ground-for-negroes-confirmed/</link>
		<comments>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/07/26/location-of-burial-ground-for-negroes-confirmed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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VCU and the Richmond Slave Trail Commission have confirmed the location of a burial ground for slaves and free blacks covered by Interstate 95 and a parking lot on the VCU/MCV campus.



The joint press release:


Joint Statement by the Richmond Slave Trail Commission and Virginia Commonwealth University
State, City and VCU leaders met July 14 at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Me Where You&#8217;re Marching, Tell Me Where You&#8217;re Bound</title>
		<link>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/01/30/tell-me-where-youre-marching-tell-me-where-youre-bound/</link>
		<comments>http://riverdistrictnews.com/2008/01/30/tell-me-where-youre-marching-tell-me-where-youre-bound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john m</dc:creator>
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While photographing pre-Civil War sites around Richmond, Shanna Merola discovered that many of the structures used during the city&#8217;s slave trade have been erased from the landscape, with few markers to indicate their historical significance. With a pinhole camera, she captured images of the Manchester Docks, Lumpkin&#8217;s Jail, and the Negro Burial Ground or, rather, [...]]]></description>
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