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Meet The Founder Who Started A Movement To End Plantation Tourism

Meet The Founder Who Started A Movement To End Plantation Tourism Many plantations continue to allow for weddings, drinking, and festivities to take place where thousands perished. one plantation memorialized solely to the history of slavery.  While many are focused on weddings, drinking, and hosting festivities on sacred ground, there’s one man who seeks to memorialize these places of resilience, strength, and hope, despite the atrocities committed against so many of our ancestors: Kirk Brown. As the founder and CEO of Melanin MeetUps, Brown launched The Better Together Project, a movement to end plantation glorification and tourism. Inspired by the literature of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Kirk marked the Juneteenth launch of The Better Together project with the “Stop The Glamorization of Plantation Tourism petition” which targets the Louisiana River Parishes Tourist Commission to “Remove the name “New Orleans Plantation Country” from its website and stop advertising wed

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