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.
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The Latest News Love Cemetery, the place, is in the news. The decendant community and others have, once again, been locked out. Access Denied by Steve Brady - News Messenger - Published June 19, 2008 - The struggle to acquire easy access to Love Cemetery took an unexpected turn Thursday afternoon. [read article] A PUBLIC HEARING was held in Austin, Texas, June 17, 2008, on several cemetery lock-outs including Love Cemetery. What does Denzel Washington's new movie, The Great Debaters  have in common with Love Cemetery? Dallas Morning News' Front Page Story on Love Cemetery

Items of Interest

View a video of China reading from Love Cemetery. She's joined by singer Linda Tillery and accompanist Ann Jefferson.	View a seven minute sample of the documentary-in-progress about Love Cemetery.	Watch China's presentation at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum.

"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)