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Cultural Historian Cory J. France returned to Goucher College Oct. 14 to receive the campus’ Rory Turner Prize for Cultural Sustainability. France presented a lecture summarizing his recent work, “Scenes at the Stakes,” which focuses on the restoration of historic Black gravesites in South Carolina.
France’s discussion, titled “Black Cemetery Citizenship: Memory, Place and the Stakes of Care,” was an explanation of community-led restoration efforts at Palmetto Cemetery, one of many Black burial grounds throughout the nation in the process of reclamation…