family – ANDREA ROBERTS

Dead Assets: Endangered Cemeteries, Sacred Spaces of African America

Jun 20, 2014Andrea RobertsUncategorizedadvocacy, african american, ancestors, black, Black women, cemetery, church, family, fringe, history, Houston, justice, land, legislative, planning, reparations, rural, slave, Texas

By Andrea Roberts* I spoke yesterday with Jeremy Nelloms, descendant of Nancy Bradshaw. Nancy Bradshaw was a former slave who attained an impressive 300 acres of land after emancipation located in today’s northeast Houston, Texas. The land is located a few blocks off I-10 East. Her family still owns the land, and the historic African…

Paul Deen Part II:The White-Black Workplace Relationship in Social Memory

As much as I would love to let sleeping dogs lie, I had to post this to reiterate what i see as the significances of the Paula Deen case. This is indeed not a matter of deciding whether what a celebrity says matters or not, or whether we should forgive. This must be lifted from…