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The Remember2019 collective works to memorialize the centennial of the 1919 mass lynching in Elaine, Arkansas, to celebrate present victories, and collectively call for healthier, more free futures.

06/13/2023

The Remember2019 Collective is seeking to support the creativity of students or faculty from the Marvell/Elaine School District with microgrants totaling between $250-$2500 to support collective visioning for young people’s futures and opportunities. Interested students (and family of students) and faculty members can submit a proposal for visual or performing art projects that aim to:

+ Unite community members to encourage interconnectedness
Remind community members of the values and traditions that bring them joy.

+ Re-imagine the future of the community.

+ If a student is under the age of 18, they must have a relative agree to supervise the project. Relatives can develop a project with their students as well and submit a proposal for a family-led project.

Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of 5 community members. Submissions are due August 1st. A second round of interviews will take place in September and finalists will receive funds by October 15th.

Submissions must be made through this form. - https://forms.gle/PC9DiFv7cqmPjtnLA

cc Notch Theatre Company Yazmany Arboleda Arielle Julia Brown Mauricio T Salgado Carlos Sirah

02/05/2022

We are heartbroken to learn about the passing of our beloved friend and collaborator Phillip Stackhouse. As a musician, teacher, and cultural worker, he touched the lives of many in Phillips County, Arkansas and beyond. As the saxophone player for Black ‘n da Blues and a contributor to our Callin Down The Road residency program he was a generous and thoughtful professional. We will miss him dearly.

02/05/2022

We are heartbroken to learn about the passing of our beloved friend and collaborator Phillip Stackhouse. As a musician, teacher, cultural worker he touched the lives of many in Phillips County, Arkansas and beyond. As the saxophone player for Black ‘n da Blues and a contributor to our Callin Down The Road residency program he was a generous and thoughtful professional. We will miss you dearly, Phillip!

08/01/2021

We are proud to share our latest collaboration “Black Cypress: A Phillips County Survival Guide.”

From the book’s introduction: “We remember. Roots everywhere, beneath our feet, beneath all that is seen, an alluvial floodplain masquerades as delta. Arkansas Delta land, more arc than triangle, the river spills over onto this land, once inhabited by the Quapaw, depositing minerals, clay and silt, which hold water and aerate the ground. The ground breathes. Annual floods replenish silt, create tributaries. Sometimes when the river retreats, lakes form, saturating what was once deep forest, into trees that grow in water. That is one origin story of this place. There are many. As an act of love, we want to think with the bald cypress, who stands at the convergence of all these processes. Black Cypress: A Phillips County Survival Guide was borne out of a need to gather, in this time of a global pandemic.

We recall. Quartz and feldspar. Silt people. Roots everywhere, dreams and songs, fold into prayer and scripture. Driving along Arkansas Hwy. 44, from Helena West-Helena to Elaine, one is struck by the cypress trees in Lake View. The trees have knees, a distinctive feature of cypress trees, breathable roots jut from the ground beneath the lake, forming a barrier around the trunk of the tree, catching sediment, aerating the soil. Black Cypress calls us to think of the people, the traditions, the institutions, that nurture and nourish us, that catch us up, giving us breath.”

Here are pictures of the book being delivered to some of our beloved contributors earlier this month.

04/02/2021

Tonight is the night! We will be streaming Black 'n da Blues tonight, April 2nd, at 8pm EDT at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_EPTZc1veE

Stay tuned after the show for a conversation between Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch and Carlos Sirah!

03/30/2021

Join us this Friday, April 2, from 8 to 930pm EST for a sharing of our show
Black 'n da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta. This is an invitation to gather, to reflect and to reveal. It is a communal ritual. It happens in a cafeteria, a church, a club, a school, a stage, or under some shade; a space where the line between the audience and the performers is blurred because we are all here to be seen and remembered.

Written by Carlos Sirah, an internationally produced writer and performer with Remember2019, and co-produced with the Elaine Legacy Center in Elaine, the Delta Cultural Center in Helena-West Helena, and the Boys, Girls, Adults, Community and Development Center in Marvell, this collaborative effort features musicians from the Arkansas Delta as they explore the cultural and race history of Phillips County over the last 100 years, as told through the Spirituals, the Blues and R&B. This is a timely show that weaves together live music and oral history in order to tell a story about the last century in Phillips County including the Elaine Massacre of 1919. The performance is like spending an afternoon on the porch with an inter-generational gathering of neighbors as they sing songs and tell stories about the blues, freedom, suffering and endurance.

In addition to a showing of the 90-minute concert play, (and because the work deals with the 1919 Elaine Massacre and features testimonies documented by renowned journalist Ida B. Wells), there will be a post-show conversation with the project's author, Carlos Sirah, and Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch, Professor of History and Dean of the Graduate School at Arkansas State University to explore how historians have considered these subjects and the Black women living in rural Arkansas during the early part of the 20th century.

09/22/2020

JOIN US: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020, 5 p.m. CST
WHY ORAL HISTORY?

As part of The Elaine Legacy Center's pre-anniversary zoom series Paul Ortiz, a professor of history and director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, will speak about why oral history matters. He is president of the United Faculty of Florida-UF (FEA/NEA/AFT/AFL-CIO). His book An African American and Latinx History of the United States was identified by Bustle as one of “Ten Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You.” Beyondchron.org called his book Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Blood Election of 1920 “…both an essential teaching of American history and a critical resource for understanding grassroots organizing today.”

09/14/2020

JOIN US: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020, 5 p.m. CST
The early way of civil rights: learnings for today

As part of The Elaine Legacy Center pre-anniversary zoom series Judge Olly Neal will speak and take questions growing out of the intersection of his book, Outspoken, and today’s struggles. Judge Neal is a friend and powerful speaker for the Elaine Legacy Center. He grew up in nearby Marianna, Arkansas and is known to all who work in civil rights in this country. Order the book and be ready with your questions for one who is a legacy in his own time. This zoom session will be facilitated by James Deke Pope, inaugural president of the Black Student Association at Memphis State University where he was also a member of the ‘Memphis 109” who integrated the undergraduate classes.

07/16/2020

News via : Learn more about in this essay by @carlsirah and .
A huge thank you to the JKW Foundation and who have made the work possible.

07/01/2020

We are excited to share that this morning we mailed out packets to all of our community partners in support of the creation of Black Cypress: A Phillips County Survival Guide.

Black Cypress is a book project to collect stories, images, scriptures, songs, prayers and recipes for hard times. This survival guide invites Black folks from across Phillips County to submit images and author ‘letters’ about how their community has survived crisis, which will be published online and in a physical book.

The members of the Remember2019 Collective are grateful to be collaborating with our community partners knowing the work that they continue to do for and within Phillips County. We believe that each one of the Lead Partners communes with a distinct constituency that can speak to a large array of experience surviving in Arkansas. We recognize they have each built trust in their communities and we work to honor and respect that trust as well.

06/19/2020

Happy Juneteenth! Here are some pictures of our celebration two years ago in Elaine.

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