Washington Post Highlight on Alex Breanne Corporation!

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Written By John Mills

John Mills doing research at the Brooklyn Public Library

What an honor to have been the focus of an article this week in the Washington Post!

The article focused on how I was introduced to my family history in American enslavement in the late 90’s, coming to realizations around where my surname came from, and my attempts to process that information. The article also discusses my Texas trip in 2003 to find the burial location of my ancestors, only to find them in the woods behind a whites-only cemetery.

I would eventually walk other grounds where my ancestors were degraded not only in life, but also in death. This pushed me towards greater research. It would become the driver of my pursuit of Boston University training in Genealogical Research as a means of activism… using research into the enslaved and my personal experience as an African American (and descendant) to attempt to generate discussion around the reverberating effects today. This is the basis of the work I do with the Alex Breanne Corporation.

I was pleased that the reporter referenced many of our efforts occurring in Baltimore, New Jersey and Connecticut… one of which is the Fortune Mural Project in Waterbury, CT. You can learn more about that effort at https://FortuneMural.org.

Read the Washington Post article here. It’s behind a paywall, so if you do not have a subscription to the Washington Post, you can also read the article here.

My non-profit has multiple efforts in-flight across 3 states. For those who would like to help us in our efforts, please consider donating at https://alexbreanne.org/donate.

Thank you for all of your continued support and God Bless.

John

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

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