“Remember 2019”
To remember is to recall. We recall the mass lynching of 1919 and the intergenerational trauma that it caused for the Black communities of Phillips County.
To re-member is to reunite. As members of distant and different communities, we re-member these communities in order to self-determine, see one another and value our interconnectedness.
To remember is to remind. We center our work on the values and traditions that have brought us this far and are the well-spring of our enduring joy.
To remember 2019 is to call forth. We call forth community creativity and wisdom to encourage a re-imagining of our future, 100 years after the mass lynching.
Community
Sharing Stories We believe that the stories we share reflect the truths we live by. We are committed to creating spaces to listen and share stories so that these truths can continue to inform and reshape our cultural narrative.
Cultural Specificity We believe that the Black cultural and spiritual traditions of the Arkansas Delta region hold within them the capacity for transformative storytelling, radical imagination and healing. Our work is to lift and expand the capacities of Black local cultural traditions while interrogating and holding the specificity of our own cultural lenses and traditions.
Events
Summer of 2016 In response to the Equal Justice Initiative’s call to memorialize the sites of terror lynchings throughout the American South….
Summer of 2017 This summer, Mauricio Salgado, Arielle Julia Brown, Ashley Teague and Carlos Sirah co-organized a series of events……