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A Rural Community Leading the Way in Stewardship and Preservation
VisitUtah.com article, November 2021
"Underrepresented history also finds a place here. At mile-maker 27.7 I pull up to a picnic area to hand-grind corn and learn about the Buffalo Soldiers, the all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments stationed primarily in the West following the Civil War."
Sema Hadithi Foundation is presenting stories of Black people in Utah at its Annual Day of Remembrance and Black History Conference.
CONTACT | PBS Utah, Aired: 09/29/21, expires: 04/30/22, Rating: NR
The Aftermath of the Lynching of Robert Marshall
KUER 90.1 | By Ivana Martinez, Published September 20, 2021, at 5:00 AM MDT
Utah doesn’t appear to have had any laws on the books that said people of color couldn’t live in town, but it’s clear African Americans weren’t welcomed in many places. Price, Utah was one of them.
Utah Coalition to Abolish Slavery launches education campaign
Tracy Smith, Sep 22, 2020 - SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4 Utah)
The Utah Coalition to Abolish Slavery formally kicked off an education campaign for Amendment C.
Public officials, religious leaders, and historians talked about the significance of removing slavery and involuntary servitude from the Utah Constitution.
Amendment C is a unifying bridge through socio-economic, religious, and ideological divides in Utah.
Discovering and Preserving Utah Black History Sema Hadithi
KRCL - RADIOACTIVE: FEBRUARY 17, 2021
A conversation about history inclusion with discovering, preserving, and telling the story of Black people in Utah's history.
Robert Burch, Founder and Executive Director of Sema Hadithi Foundation
Alana Blumenthal. Sema Hadithi Board Director of Institutional Development, Sema Hadithi. and Director, Brigham City Museums.
Living African American Mormon History
Mormon History Association Annual Conference
June 10 – 12, 2021
W. Paul Reeve CHAIR - University of Utah
Tarienne Mitchell COMMENT - Church History Library
Robert S. Burch Jr. - Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation and Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society “Researching, Writing, and Living African American History and Genealogy”
Alice Faulkner Burch - Community Event Producer & Former Genesis Group Relief Society President
C. Andrew Smith III
Tribes were displaced and slavery brought here. So how should Utahns view Mormon Pioneer Day?
Salt Lake Tribune: July 20, 2021
Radio / Podcast
Robert Burch, Sema Hadithi, and Black Geneology
LDSIA's Podcast, Education - April 16, 2022
Did you know that Black folks have been in Utah since at least 1822? I was surprised too. I learned this from an organization dedicated to sharing the truth about African American genealogy and history: The Sema Hadithi Foundation (semahadithi.org).
I had an incredible conversation with the founder of the organization, Robert Burch. One of the things I loved that he said was this, “As long as we continue to manifest untruthfulness, then it makes it difficult for us to have a community.”
I hope that as we learn more about the truth of our past and our ancestors, we can heal from the animosity of the past and move into the future with stronger communities.
Utah women's history with two folks gathering and sharing these stories.
RADIOACTIVE March 22, 2022, by Lara Jones
Featuring: Alice Burch, Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation; Utah Black Roundtable - UBR; UTAH AAHGS - Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society
Rachel Quist, SLC History. Also see Fox 13 story: Utah woman dives into and shares findings from SLC's rich history. Quist is also an Advisory Board Member and Researcher for Sema Hadithi
May 14: Walking Tour of SLC's Unseen History, class offered via Lifelong Learning at the University of Utah.
BILL TO WATCH: H.B. 238 -- State Holiday Modifications
RADIOACTIVE February 16, 2022, by Lara Jones
BILL TO WATCH: H.B. 238 -- State Holiday Modifications (Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Dist. 23, SLC). This bill would make Juneteenth a state-recognized holiday.
Salt Lake County Community Remembrance Project, a coalition of community individuals and organizations with the shared goals of addressing the problems described by the EJI, including the following:
Publicly remember the victims of racial terror (lynching)
Memorialize the victims and locations of these terror events
Facilitate ongoing community discussion around racial terror, justice inequities, and other social inequities
Tell the story of African-ancestored history, heritage, and culture in Utah
RADIOACTIVE SUMMER BREAK: July 22, 2021, by Lara Jones
Check out the group's four working groups:
Black Churches
Black Women
Buffalo Soldiers
Preservation
Discovering and Preserving Utah Black History Sema Hadithi
RADIOACTIVE February 17, 2021, by Billy Palmer
A conversation about history inclusion with discovering, preserving, and telling the story of Black people in Utah's history.
Robert Burch, Founder and Executive Director of Sema Hadithi Foundation
Alana Blumenthal. Sema Hadithi Board Director of Institutional Development, Sema Hadithi. and Director, Brigham City Museums.
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Introduction to Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation
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