NewsNew Short Film Tells the Story of Virginia’s Maggie Lena Walker
Unladylike is a series of twenty-six multimedia films honoring the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Launched in March during Women’s History Month and continuing through August 26 2020, each ten-minute …
EventPreserving African American Historic Places Mini-Conference
Join us at the Alexandria History Museum at the Lyceum for a one-day conference to provide networking opportunities and tools to help build capacity and strengthen organizations preserving African American historic sites …
NewsRichmond’s Civil Rights Past Remembered Through Stories
By Nora Pehrson Virginia Humanities grant recipient and former fellow Laura Browder is working to share the history of Richmond’s civil rights movement with public audiences. Funded in part by …
EventUnearthing Buried Stories
Join the Koinonia School of Race & Justice at Richmond Hill for a special Black History Month program focused on the enslaved community at Richmond Hill and African American burial …
EventAfroVirginia
This exhibition profiles several leaders behind Virginia’s African American historic preservation movement using photos, audio recordings, and Google Maps. It features the work of Virginia Humanities staff members Miranda Bennett …
NewsThe Whole Story
Virginia Humanities helps reveal the lives of the enslaved and widen the scope of narratives presented at plantations statewide.
NewsFrom Conversation to Collective Action
There is active racism, passive racism, and active antiracism, wrote clinical psychologist Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum in her groundbreaking, national bestselling 1997 book, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting …
NewsUnmasking Hampton Roads
Unmasking Hampton Roads is a three-part learning series designed to help residents of the region take off their masks, be candid with each other about race and racism, and work …
NewsFurious Flower: The Soundtrack
For our show “Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry” Joanne Gabbin, the founder of Furious Flower, joins us in studio along with Lauren Alleyne to …
