Join us online on February 20 to discover how a museum, a shelter, and community are working towards reparative justice through remembrance, space and time.

Since 2015, the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum has worked to raise awareness about this significant historic burial site. Now, in collaboration with the Bowery Residents' Committee—an organization dedicated to supporting the city’s unhoused community—the descendant community, and other stakeholders, they are taking vital steps to bring this history to light.

Join Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance, Director Melissa Kiewiet, and New York African Burial Ground project consultant & expert Peggy King Jorde for an opportunity to learn about the ongoing project to memorialize the burial site, engage with the community, and return the ancestral remains removed from the site in 1903. They will discuss the importance of this memorialization and how it will serve as a space for repair, remembrance, and connection for the descendants and the broader New York community.

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Black Historic Sites in Conversation is a series of virtual talks in collaboration with different Black heritage sites & cultural centers in the greater NYC area, about the ongoing work of preserving, interpreting, and celebrating Black history and historical figures.

This program is funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.