In 2025, Black in Historic Preservation invited people from across the US to write love letters to Black Heritage Sites they love:

Black in Historic Preservation (BiHP) Presents:

“Still in Love”: a Virtual Valentine’s Day + Black History Month Celebration for the Black Heritage Sites We Love

Did Burt Bacharach and Hal David envision a house missing the people who lived in it when they penned the song, “A House Is Not a Home,” sung by Luther Vandross in 1981? Maybe 🤷🏽‍♀️

Are we claiming “A House Is Not a Home” as a preservation-conservation anthem? Yes, yes we are 🤗

This Valentine’s Day, let’s shower Black Heritage sites with love, those with us in physical form, and those with us in spirit by writing a love note to them, a Valentine.

Share your love note and Black in Historic Preservation will share it on our socials. Accepting love notes now until 7pm EST on Thurs., Feb. 27. Visit blackinhistpres.com/BiHPEvents to submit your Love Note Valentine.

Below are the letters we received. Thank you to k. kennedy Whiters, RA, founder of Black in Historic Preservation for transforming the letters into Valentines.

March 7, 2025 Update to the Resource Roundup Below: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has removed two restrictions from the Fellowships Grant Application due April 9, 2025. From their email to subscribers to the Grant opportunity, dated March 6, 2025:

In the Notice of Funding Opportunity for this program, Section D6. Funding Restrictions was amended to remove “promotion of discriminatory equity ideology” and “support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities.”

Thank you to everyone who advocated for this revision.

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