We are excited to announce that Urban League of the Upstate will partner with Community Remembrance Project as Program Collaborators and our new Fiscal Agent!

The Urban League of the Upstate (ULUS) and the Community Remembrance Project (CRP) of Greenville County, SC are excited to announce a new partnership to work collaboratively on programming that will strengthen our community. The Urban League will also serve as the new fiscal agent for the CRP.

The CRP was formed in the spring of 2019 in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative’s work to bring the discussion of race and racial injustice to the forefront of our society.  “Since our inception, the CRP has engaged in an ongoing process of restorative truth-telling through facilitated community conversations about Greenville’s history of racial violence and injustice,” said CRP Co-Chair Dr. Feliccia Smith. “We are grateful to Mill Village Ministries for serving as our fiscal sponsor for the last three years, and we are grateful to the Urban League for taking up the mantle for the future.”

Mill Village Ministries’ Village Engage has served as a coalition partner to the CRP.

“We have thoroughly enjoyed working with the coalition to present thought-provoking programs,” said Village Engage Program Director Susan Stall. “It has been an honor to serve as CRP’s fiscal agent for the last three years.”

Urban League President & CEO Gail Wilson Awan welcomes this new partnership with the CRP.  “The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization and as an affiliate, we remain dedicated to economic empowerment, equality, and social justice. There is an ever-growing need to address the lack of culturally relevant and historically accurate information on the African American experience. Our signature programs and strategic partnerships take this responsibility seriously. The partnership with CRP is a natural fit.  I have great respect for the challenging, necessary work of CRP and we enthusiastically support their efforts to build a future for Greenville County that is first and foremost, rooted in justice.”

The CRP will continue discussion efforts around Greenville County’s history of racial injustice through educational events, erecting historical markers commemorating victims of racial terror, and collecting/exhibiting soil from lynching sites. “We look forward to working with the Urban League because of our shared passion to impact the community we serve.” said Smith.

Learn more about the work of the CRP at remembranceprojectgvlsc.org. More information about the Urban League of the Upstate can be found at urbanleagueupstate.org

About the Urban League of the Upstate:

The Urban League is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. It is dedicated to the principle of economic empowerment for individuals by providing the tools they need to achieve success. As the leading champion of empowerment for the black community, the Urban League of the Upstate envisions a region where all people are valued members of the community, can adequately support themselves and their families and live in vibrant and thriving neighborhoods.