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September 7, 2024: NBC4 Washington
DC State Fair celebrates all things local
It's great for kids to be able to touch the science, so it's a very tangible kind of science.
July 2, 2024: AL.com
Archaeologists document cemeteries in Mobile’s Africatown: ‘A learning laboratory’
It’s empowering to teach a community to do their own historic preservation.
March 13, 2024: Alabama News Center
Exhibit at University of South Alabama Archaeology Museum explores legacy of three Black families during Jim Crow days in Mobile
But there’s much more to the centuries-long journey of the city’s Black community, and an ongoing exhibit at the University of South Alabama (USA) Archaeology Museum is shedding light on another facet of its history.
March 2, 2024: FOX10 News
University of South Alabama launches African American cemetery speaker series
What we’re starting to see all throughout the United States is that our history and our heritage is getting lost…. a lot of cemeteries all throughout the country are kind of fallen into disrepair.
January 15, 2024: NBC15 News
Volunteers identify graves in Old Plateau Cemetery
[W]e're at a pivotal moment where African American cemeteries within us haven't been adequately documented. And this is a mass community effort to at least within this community, reverse that and actually give shine and give preservation efforts to a cemetery of this size.
December 18, 2023: Shondaland
Head Turners: Archaeologist Alexandra Jones Empowers Communities by Uncovering the Past
​I try to be a scientist, vehicle, and tool for what the community wants. And work to see if there are ways that I can become an advocate, an ally, or [work for] a heritage preservation cause.
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