SeanPaulMurphyVille: Sacred Ground: The Battle For Mount Auburn Cemetery picked up by Bayview Entertainment

My documentary Sacred Ground: The Battle For Mount Auburn Cemetery has been picked up by Bayview Entertainment for distribution. The film was a true labor of love for the entire production team and we hope it will soon be streaming on various platforms.

Sacred Ground: The Battle For Mount Auburn Cemetery, directed by David Butler, is a feature-length documentary about community activists and family members battling a Methodist church for control of historic Mount Auburn Cemetery. For years, Mount Auburn Cemetery was the only place in the Baltimore area where African-Americans could be buried. It is the final resting place of lightweight boxing champion Joe Gans, the first African American world champion in any sport, and numerous leaders in the early civil rights movement. It is a registered historic landmark that has fallen into such horrifying condition that bones litter the ground and weeds cover all but the highest monuments. It is a tale of grave robbing, grave recycling and every other terrible thing that could possibly happen in a cemetery.

The film follows Lu Moorman, president of Preservation Alliance, an independent group of activists and family members, and her attempt to wrest control of the cemetery from its stewards, Sharp Street Memorial Church. Dating back to the 1790s, Sharp Street Memorial Church is one of the first African American Methodist congregations. It was once the most influential African American church in Baltimore, but its numbers have dwindled over the years and its financial resources have waned. The current pastor Rev. Dell Hinton appointed her father, Rev. Douglas Sands, head of the cemetery. They, too, have a plan to restore the cemetery with the help of Morgan State University, but who can be trusted to speak for the generations buried beneath its soil?

Here's the trailer:

Be sure to check out my memoir The Promise, or the Pros and Cons of Talking with God, published by TouchPoint Press. It is my true story of first faith and first love and how the two became almost fatally intertwined.

Here are some sample chapters of The Promise:

Chapter 1 - A Photograph

Chapter 2 - My Death

Chapter 3 - Childhood

Chapter 4 - Saved!

Chapter 5 - The Promise

Chapter 6 - The Mission

Chapter 7 - Mission Accomplished
Chapter 15 - Quarter To Midnight

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