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Author: bxpnyc

I’m a digital journalist and filmmaker based in Richmond, VA. I have written features and analysis for Mother Jones, ColorLines, the Nation Investigative Fund, Huffington Post, and other publications and websites. I have contributed video reporting to outlets such as MTV News & Docs, ABC World News, and PBS Now with David Brancaccio. I have photographed for the New York Times, Politiken (Copenhagen), Die Zeit, and others. Currently, I’m working on a documentary called Make the Ground Talk, about historic communities in Tidewater Virginia founded by the formerly enslaved that were uprooted and nearly erased in the 20th century. My first documentary, Full Disclosure, chronicles my three "embeds" with First Battalion/Second Marines in Iraq. The documentary premiered in 2010 at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and is available on TFI Reframe Collection/Amazon. http://reframecollection.org/films/film?Id=2140 From 2000-2002, I was a New York City-based correspondent for CNN, where I covered regional, national, and international news. In the mid 1990s, I served as Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report. During my 20 year career, I have covered war and conflict, the White House and Capitol Hill, and life at the grassroots around the world.

News from East End

May 30, 2017May 30, 2017 by bxpnyc

The Friends of East End Cemetery Inc. is now a 501 (c)(3), a nonprofit registered with the Internal Revenue Service. This means we’re eligible to receive tax-deductible donations. (We’re asking people to wait on contributing until we give the word to contribute!) We spent a productive Memorial Day weekend at the cemetery, weed-whacking and weed-plucking … Continue reading News from East End

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How does the local Enrichmond story connect to national legislation proposed to “save” historic African American burial grounds? In a couple of powerful ways, writes @bxpnyc. This is an update of the his recent op-ed in @richmondfreepressusa.
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Remember the @changedotorg petition we launched in March 2021, “Protect Richmond’s African American Cemeteries”? With @enrichmondfoundation's collapse, it’s even more urgent now. [LINK IN BIO — https://tinyurl.com/bdhx6fnp]

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