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The Latest News
June, 2009 - Austin, TX, and San Francisco, CA - "Keeping people locked out of their family burial grounds has created a horrible situation," says Rep. Garnet Coleman of Houston.
This should have never happened," Rep. Garnet Coleman told author, China Galland. Rep. Coleman's bill in the Texas Legislature sought to end the current denial of access to families who are cut off from their ancestors surrounding landowners. Thanks to the controversy over access to Love Cemetery and public hearings held across Texas throughout 2008, we now know of at least thirty-five (35) other cemeteries where families are locked out. Coleman's bill was incorporated as an amendment to another bill that passed the legislature and was signed into law by Governor Perry on May 30, 2009.
The new law enforces reasonable access to family burial grounds and adds penalties for those who lock people out.
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Earlier:
April 21, 2009 - Austin,
TX, and San Francisco, CA - "Keeping people locked out of their
family burial grounds has created a horrible situation," says Rep.
Garnet Coleman of Houston. "This should have never happened. I've
introduced legislation to make sure that this doesn't happen again,"
Rep. Coleman told author, China Galland. Coleman introduced HB #
3739 on March 12th, 2009, to strengthen existing Texas laws. On
April 21, 2009, there will be a public hearing in Austin on the
bill. China and others from the Love Cemetery community are in
Austin for today's hearing.
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for full press release.
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Love Cemetery,
Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
By
China Galland
Though
it's set in a remote part of rural East Texas, the story of Love--a
historic black cemetery--is really a quintessential American story of
land theft, racism and environmental destruction that plays out in
different versions in New Orleans, Iraq, and Darfur. It asks whether
we can work together to create a shared future by understanding our
shared history.
Published by
HarperOne (a division of HarperCollins),
2008.
[...read more about the book
]
[or view press release
]
If you don't have the book,
use BookSense to find your local independent bookseller! If that's not
possible, see links at left.
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View a video of China reading from Love Cemetery. She's joined by singer Linda Tillery and accompanist Ann Jefferson. |
Watch China's presentation at the Commonwealth Club,
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"I guarantee that once you start, you
will not stop, and when you
are done,
you will have discovered the healing power of Love Cemetery."
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Bill Moyers,
Bill Moyers Journal
"Love Cemetery
is a moving work of immense social consciousness and spiritual power
written by a very gifted writer"
Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees
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"To create a page-turner about our collective shadow is the sweetest gift a writer can offer. May you weep, as did I, for what she discovers in these piney woods, and through this offering know your country and self in humbling new ways."
Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest, How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (Viking, May 2007)
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