Now in its fourth season, Sotterley kicks off its 2021 Common Ground programming on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at 7:00 p.m., as it virtually hosts Jerome Spears for his presentation LINKS.
Mr. Spears, graduate of the University of Hawaii and 30-year U.S. Army veteran, is a researcher, speaker, and Sotterley Descendant through the Bankins-Barber-Scriber-Stevens lines. He reveals his personal journey of genealogical research using DNA to tell the powerful and healing stories of ancestors. There will be opportunities for Q & A during the webinar.
This webinar is part of Historic Sotterley’s 2021 Common Ground Initiative: Transcending Barriers to Toward Healing. The mission of this initiative is to:
- bring descendants, community and partners together to provide education, resources, remembrance, and celebrate cultures to aid in healing
- to help uncover and eradicate racism and discrimination in all forms
- to promote social equality and justice through interpretation of authentic history and its relevance to effect social change while encouraging individual and group activism.
This is a FREE virtual webinar, but advance registration is required. On-line registration is available on Sotterley’s website at www.sotterley.org.
