MGC recognizes the hard work that the commission members put into their studies and recommendations. We recognize that it is through that hard work that we will be able to find more complete stories of our loved ones. We will be able to mark their burial sites. The truth will no longer be hidden.

This year the MGC board decided to recognize a project which excels in leveraging collaboration to create a virtual research center at 10MillionNames.org, hosted and supported by American Ancestors.

Dear Mary, Dear Luther is truly the saga of a loving African American family, facing hardships with dignity and grace.

Without oral history, we lose the voices of our ancestors and all that they witnessed. Kenvi Phillips tells us how to use these stories.