Events
"A Story of Bones" TV Premiere PBS POV Monday, July 3 10PM Check local listings:
An immense journey of individual agency and community action, two Black women, one an American descendant of enslaved people and a Namibian from the opposite sides of the Atlantic, wage a global campaign to protect the world's most significant burial ground for enslaved Africans. POV’s A STORY OF BONES premieres on Monday, July 3 on @PBS.
Register to Join Our Conversation-September 8, 2021 @ 6PM ET Talking About Race Matters
With changes contemplated for an African burial ground and Native American ritual site in Inwood, join us for a panel discussion on the history of slavery at Dyckman House, in New Amsterdam, and in the early years of the United States. How might we best study this past and commemorate it in the present?
National Museum of African American History and Culture presents The African Burial Ground 30 Years
Saturday, May 8, 2021, 12 PM
Join the Robert F. Smith Explore Your Family History Center as we welcome Dr. Blakey to discuss the impacts and legacy of the African Burial Ground project and National Memorial 30 years later. He will be joined by Peggy King Jorde and Dr. Joseph Jones, both of whom worked on the African Burial Grounds project and have continued to advocate for Black cemeteries and descendant communities.
ASALH Martha's Vineyard, Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Guest Presenter, Peggy King Jorde
SAVE THE DATE!
Association for the Study of African Life and History
Martha's Vineyard Branch
Virtual Fundraiser
Defending Marginalized History, Global Preservation of African Burial Grounds
Guest Presenter, Peggy King Jorde, KING JORDE Culturals
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
3 PM - 4:30 PM
Registration FEE: $25
United Nations Radio Interview Podcast November 2020
Peggy King Jorde interview with United Nations Radio on the preservation of the African Burial Ground in NYC and St. Helena, UK.
Interview Bergen Record - USA News November 2020
Englewood woman joins United Nations discussion on preserving African slave burial grounds
OpEd by Peggy King Jorde
BLACK HISTORY MATTERS
St. Helena , UK african burial ground
South Atlantic Media Services
OpEd by Peggy King Jorde
BLACK HISTORY MATTERS
african burial ground
October 2019 GoodPitch NY
Documentary film team pitching film in production about an African Burial Ground on the island of St. Helena, UK in the South Atlantic. A Middle Passage story.
DOCUMENTARY CREW FILMS IN ALBANY
Albany Herald 11/2018: Story of Bones film participants and PT films follow Peggy King Jorde home to Albany, Georgia. (african burial ground)
WOMAN BRINGS BURIED SLAVES DIGNITY Feb. 2011 (african burial ground)