Was interviewed for Christina McBride's piece in RVA Magazine on William & Mary's involvement in slavery (2018).
"After more than 10 years of deliberation and planning, the College of William and Mary is finalizing a memorial to the people enslaved by the school between the 17th and mid-19th centuries. The school has been open for 324 years, and it practiced institutionalized slavery for 172 years — more than 50 percent of the time its doors have been open to students.
The memorial has been in the works by the members of the Lemon Project for many years. An investigation into William and Mary’s slaveholding past that is itself named for a man once enslaved by the college, The Lemon Project is, according to William and Mary’s website, a “multifaceted and dynamic attempt to rectify wrongs perpetrated against African Americans by the College through action or inaction.” It works to foster connections between William & Mary and the Greater Tidewater area."
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