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BUILDING REMEMBRACE FOR RECONCILIATION About Us Building Remembrance for Reconciliation is dedicated to using history and the arts to remember reconcile and heal. Recent efforts towards racial and social justice and remembrance and reconciliation have taught us how important history and memorialization is to our community awareness and change. BR4Rs mission in telling the stories of Hastings early Black families is toprovide the community with a better understanding of our Black history and establish important steps towards building a better future through a more thorough understanding of the past. BR4R Our Story More About Us Events News Star Tribune columnist Curt Brown writes about Hastings early Black residents celebrating the passage of a new federal civil rights law in 1875 and the evening closed with a dance both colors freely intermingling.