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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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We almost feel bad for the pokeweed! Then again, it’ll be back next year.
We’ve been poring over the documents that Enrichmond handed over to the city this spring. Not a pretty picture. Also not a surprise.
Heavy rains last week brought down a very large (and decidedly dead) tree, which snapped another one in half as it fell. By some miracle, no grave markers were struck — the trunk came down right between them, narrowly missing several headstones, including that of H. F. Jonathan. We were very thankful for that. A little less thankful, though, for the gigantic mess that was generated by the crash landing.
Well, we had hoped to have the whole place looking ship shape in time for Memorial Day, but that might have been a wee bit ambitious…. Still, we have made tons of progress over the past few weeks, knocking down knee-, thigh-, and chest-high weeds, picking up literally (?!) thousands of sticks and branches, and hauling everything to what we affectionately call Mount Brushmore on the side of the road.
Recent scenes from the East End Critter Cam (aka @wokdocs) — because, really, is that not the bittiest, cutest turtle you’ve ever seen?! Not shown: the five-foot-long black rat snake (though s/he was pretty cool too!).
Speaking of Enrichmond…

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