Join us on April 26 through April 28. On October 30, 2008, before celebrating her 40th birthday, Cousin Beverly Dampier passed away. Beverly loved flowers and was showered with them at her funeral. In childhood, Cousin Helen made a pinky promise "to love and take care of Cousin Beverly no matter what!” On October 1, 2010, President Obama apologized to the Guatemala President for the U.S. Public Health Services role in the Guatemala Syphilis Inoculation Study, and it triggered repressed memories of Cousin Beverly’s death and Helen began writing her documentary, Generational Trauma, An American Family’s Post-Traumatic Love Story. On October 1, 2023, Cousin Helen, CEO of Talk Story, Incorporated is launching the #FamilyLoveMatters Movement to obtain justice for the Rosenwald Fund Study (RFS) and is hosting the 1st Annual Flower Gurlz Inaugural Gala in Newport News VA from April 26-28, 2024, to honor Cousin Beverly on her 55th heavenly birthday (April 27th). The launch of #FamilyLoveMatters is an effort to help continue the research needed to garner accountability and acknowledgment in more than 10
counties in six southern states involved in the RFS.