NewsExpanding Our Origin Story
Cauline Yates was at a family reunion the first time she heard she was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson. In 2019, she was asked to help develop the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia. With Good Reason producer Matt Darroch has the story.
NewsNavigating the River
Impact Story: Horace Scruggs — Horace Scruggs is a skilled outdoorsman in Fluvanna County. He is working with our Virginia Folklife Program to pass along his skills in navigating the river to apprentices Hanna Scruggs (Horace’s daughter) and Niya Bates.
NewsVeronica Jackson
Veronica Jackson had over three decades of experience as an architect and exhibit designer when she decided it was time for a change. She closed up her Washington, D.C.-based design …
EventLegacies of Slavery – Landscapes of Segregation
The University of Virginia and its President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation (PCUAS) will host the USS conference from September 28-October 1st, 2022: Legacies of Slavery …
EventAfrikana Independent Film Festival – 2022
Virginia Humanities is excited to co-sponsor the 7th Annual Afrikana Independent Film Festival (AIFF) on Thursday, September 15 – Sunday, September 18, 2022. View Schedule Purchase Tickets AIFF is a three-day event …
Event“In Good Keeping in 2022” Fork Union Screening
The Virginia Folklife Program invites you to its third screening of In Good Keeping in 2022, a feature-length documentary film showcasing eighteen artists from across the state who are working to …
NewsHBCU Renaissance
What does William Faulkner and a cool pair of sneakers have in common? More than you might think.
NewsMore Than a Fraction: The Power of the Merry Tree
A recent grant from Virginia Humanities, awarded to More Than a Fraction Foundation, supported the first public phase of a long-term project, that is bringing together the descendants of two families—one whose ancestors were enslaved; the other whose forebears enslaved them.
NewsRev. Edward Scott & His Jazz Worship Service – Folklife Fieldnotes Episode 7
Dr. Rev. Edward Scott is the pastor at Allen Chapel AME Church in Staunton, VA. He’s also a jazz music enthusiast. He takes his love of jazz and combines it with his …
NewsNational Association of Black Storytellers Seeks Appalachian Storytellers
The program will provide six $4,000 awards (with limited restrictions) to support experienced practitioners and culture bearers with opportunities to examine, research, develop, perform, and/or document the Black Appalachian storytelling tradition.
EventReconstructed
Join us for a free screening of “Reconstructed: The Rebuilding of African American Communities Through Faith and Education,” a film by Horace Scruggs. This film was produced by the Fluvanna …
NewsRestoring & Preserving Fluvanna’s Black Cemeteries
In the fall of 2021, we awarded the Fluvanna County Historical Society a grant through the Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan program. The historical society is using the funds …
