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African King reunites with Royal cousin

His Majesty, the King of Prince's Town, Nana Ndama Kundumuah IV, and his cousin, Howard L. Robertson, Jr. Pictured below: Cousins embrace.

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NEWS & EVENTS

Genealogy Workshop

01.10.08

Nessa Baskerville Johnson, noted genealogist, author and Storyteller will be the first guest speaker for the 2009 Genealogy Workshop series, held at Richmond, Virginia's William Byrd Community House.   Ms. Johnson's presentation reveals how her "family research" led to  uncovering a church parish's genealogical lines and subsequently utilizing a city's genealogy structure to penetrate and cause a shift in political, economic, artistic, and other systems. 

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For more information on this exciting speaker, please contact William Byrd Community House 804.643.2717

IN THE NEWS...

Clayton County commissioners vote to move Black cemetery in order to expand landfill.

Virginia Commonwealth University makes plans to "improve" existing parking lot by paving over the oldest lack cemetery in Richmond.

African American descendants from Alexandria connected to the Freedmen (Contraband) Cemetery during the Civil War.

Choctaw-Chickasaw Freedmen Heritage Conference & Reunion 

Barack Obama wouldn't be the first Black President

Paved Paradise: Cemeteries in Parking Lots

 

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