2025 Memorialization Gathering

September 5-7, 2025
Oxford, Mississippi

The Lafayette Community Remembrance Project (LCRP) invites you to join us for our second Memorialization Gathering in Oxford, Mississippi, September 5–7, 2025.

This gathering brings together individuals and communities dedicated to memorializing historical racial injustice, not only to reflect on the past, but to build toward a more just future. In this moment of heightened resistance to truth-telling, our work is more urgent than ever.

Across the country, communities are wrestling with how to continue memorialization efforts when historical truth is being challenged, erased, or suppressed. This weekend is an opportunity to come together, make meaningful connections, and explore. The program will be structured around three questions:

  • Why is it important to sustain this work in unprecedented and uncertain times?

  • What does it look like to support each other beyond our local contexts?

  • How can we create space for truth, healing, and justice even when doing so is difficult or risky?

Through workshops, dialogue, and shared meals, we will deepen our community of practice, learn from one another, and dream forward together. While the focus remains on Mississippi, we welcome community leaders, organizers, educators, descendants, artists, and advocates from across the South and beyond.

WHEN: September 5-7, 2025

WHERE:  Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi

COST: Registration and attendance for all events are free of charge. Attendees will be responsible for their own travel and lodging. There is limited funding to help offset travel and lodging costs for those who need assistance.

LODGING: There is a room block available at a reduced rate of $144 per night, plus taxes and fees at the Hampton Inn Oxford Conference Center (662-234-5565). You can make, modify, and cancel reservations online for the Hampton Inn Oxford Conference Center (https://group.hamptoninn.com/hc6c4b) or by calling the hotel and requesting the Lafayette Community Remembrance Project block. The room block expires on Tuesday, August 4, 2025 at 5:00pm CT. 

photos from our 2024 gathering