social justice

Recommended reading, no. 20: Cemetery Citizens.

I have not yet sunk my teeth into Adam Rosenblatt’s Cemetery Citizens, but can’t wait to share it with you. The breadth of the community of people working to reclaim African-American cemeteries is both heartbreaking and encouraging, and I have learned so much from their experiences. Durham’s Geer Cemetery and Richmond’s East End Cemetery have histories and present challenges very different from Wilson’s Rountree, Odd Fellows, and Vick, but those of us working in those spaces grapple with the same fundamental questions. I was honored to sit for an interview for this book and to contribute to the conservations around this form of social justice work.