Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground
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    • The New York Times November 2017
    • The Sonnet Project
    • Hunts Point Express June 2016
    • The New York Times January 2014
    • The Periwinkle Initiative
    • ABC7 Here and Now
    • Hunts Point Fish Parade 2014
    • Remember the Forgotten
    • May 2014 Press Conference
    • The Daffodil Project
    • January 2014 Press Conference
    • EBHF Talk
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    • BronxTalk Coverage
    • The Burial Ground: A Short Film by Monique John
    • HPSBG Trailer
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Transform Learning About History to Doing Something About History 
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What will you investigate?
Use your talents for the Hunts Point Slave Burial Project.  There are many ways to plug into the project.  And then, connect those you know! So...what will you do?  ​Interested in starting your own project? Learn from our experiences.

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Take the Initiative​

Share your skills and/or interests for:
  • Organizing a park clean up with a It's My Park Day
  • Designing websites, blogs, and/or wikis
  • Managing Facebook or Twitter accounts
  • Writing lessons for students,
  • Researching historical materials,
  • Fundraising to support educational initiatives,
  • Making artistic representations of the site, its history, and call to awareness
  • Analyzing historical maps,
  • Creating documentary videos,
  • Developing informational brochures,
  • Writing letters and other correspondence,
  • Creating and delivering presentations to groups of people,
  • Contacting and connecting with governmental officials, agencies, and community organizations.
Connect HPSBG with others.
Perhaps you know:
  • a NYC council person
  • a historian
  • a community activist or organization
  • a museum curator
  • a publicist in media relations
  • a reporter
  • a librarian
  • an educator
  • a photographer
  • a researcher
  • a government official
  • anyone interested in the Hunts Point Slave Burial Project.
As you can tell, there are multiple ways to become engaged in uncovering and commemorating the past, right here, in the South Bronx through the Hunts Point Slave Burial Project.

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As an educational project based in a New York City public school, we rely on your support to develop innovative and authentic educational opportunities for our students and the larger Hunts Point community.  Donate today!

HPSBG is an educational project housed in PS 48, an NYC public school. Transform Learning About History to Doing Something About History
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