For many years, African American burial grounds across the nation have suffered from a state of disrepair or are inaccessible, and many remain undocumented. The African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Act (H.R. 6805/S. 3667) would authorize the National Park Service, in consultation with the National Trust and Black heritage organizations, to establish a $3 million annual grant program to aid preservation efforts across the country through research, documentation, conservation, and interpretation of historic African American burial grounds. Ask your elected officials to support the African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Act.

In 1942, the U.S. government forcibly removed 13,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Northwest to what was known as Minidoka War Relocation Camp in rural south-central Idaho. Today, a proposed wind farm next to Minidoka National Historic Site could potentially create a visual wall of hundreds of wind towers and irrevocably change the landscape that still conveys the isolation experienced by Japanese Americans incarcerated there. Urge the Bureau of Land Management to protect and respect Minidoka National Historic Site and the Japanese American experience.