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Explore CML's newly created digital project, Black Lives Next Door: George Mason and Northern Virginia in an Age of Disparity and Opportunity. Building on work that began in 2020, BLND is presenting its first set of findings, thanks to the support of a 2021 Summer Team Impact Grant.

Suggestions for listening, reading, and exploring the history of Juneteenth.

The Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason, is often noted for its influence on the Declaration of Independence and as the basis of the Bill of Rights. The opening statement, that the Declaration of Rights “is made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government” was, however, limited to a certain group of people. Not all people of Virginia were represented at the Convention.