Ashley Minner, a UMBC Professor of Practice in the Department of American Studies, undertakes a mission to share the stories of the Lumbee community in East Baltimore. She is creating an new archive to collect history of the community.![](https://www.baltimoresun.com/resizer/fH5B14gOK9coibJ3zIM7MXocUNQ=/1200x0/top/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/4LVCUKKAPBHSDA3B3AQNHHYWWE.jpg)
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"Minner said the archive is not purely academic, but also an urgent project of reclamation — of history, of space, of belonging and the power of collective memory."
This article is featured in the The Baltimore Sun and can be read in its entirety here.