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A film crew

Date: October 22, 2024

Last week at the Dean’s Table, a film crew turned up. The project is to create a ninety minute documentary on our Reparations Program. They have been filming for almost a year now. They have met with descendants, and the administration. They are planning to be present at the Board plenary in early November so that they can capture Ms. Ebonee Davis’ presentation to the Board of Trustees.

The people who have spent the most time with the film crew are Ms. Ebonee Davis, the Rev. Dr. Joe Thompson, and now the Rev. Dr. Altagracia Perez-Bullard. This is where the granular detail of our Reparations Program is being worked out. This is where a program which makes payments (albeit very modest payments, nothing compared to the sin) to descendants is being created “ex nihilo”. This documentary will capture the painstaking work of the moment.

Thank you to the Student Government for allowing the film crew to join us. Thank you to everyone who is involved.

The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary and the President of The General Theological Seminary

 

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