Candice Butts’ family has been in Atlanta since before there was an Atlanta. And she’s always felt that some of her ancestors, likely brought here as enslaved people, could be among the 900 people buried in historic Oakland Cemetery’s Slave Square.
That visceral connection is part of what drove Butts, HCI 2022, to use what she had learned in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication to explore the possibilities of fusing technology and storytelling in sharing the unique role of Black women in mourning and funereal practices in the 1800s. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
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