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Michael Rao, Ph.D.

Category results for: Family Representative Council

East Marshall Street Well project update: honoring the ancestral remains

At VCU we are committed to service and the advancement of humanity. And, at times we must work together to right injustices that were committed in the past to members of humanity who did not have a voice. On Nov. 25 at 1:00 p.m. we will welcome and honor the ancestral remains of the souls […]

East Marshall Street Well Update: Presentation and Recommendations

Earlier this week I received recommendations from the Family Representative Council on how to properly memorialize and inter the remains of individuals found in an abandoned well on East Marshall Street in 1994. The remains of people, largely of African and African American descent, would have been lost to time had construction of the Hermes […]