NewsVisions of Style
How Black Virginians used the camera to define themselves at the turn of the 20th Century.
EventBeyond Black Radicalism: How America’s Great Migration to New York City Shaped Electoral Politics
Join us for “Beyond Black Radicalism,” a free talk by Janira Teague, historian and member of our 2022–23 Virginia HBCU Scholars Fellowship cohort.
EventRage, Resistance & Response in The Infamous Rosalie
Join Ima Hicks, Assistant Professor of Languages and Literature at Virginia Union University, for “Rage, Resistance & Response in The Infamous Rosalie,” a talk highlighting the research she conducted on the novel as a Virginia Humanities HBCU Scholars Fellow.
EventA Silent and Dignified Army
In this discussion, Dr. Derrick Lanois—one of our 2022–23 HBCU Scholars Fellows—will shed light on the men and women who changed the U.S.
EventFrom the Field to the Big House at Stratford Hall
Join Stratford Hall for a pay-as-you-wish program highlighting the history of some of the enslaved communities at Stratford Hall. Historical interpreters Willie and Hope Wright, Harold Caldwell of Colonial Williamsburg, …
EventJuneteenth Celebration
This celebration will feature the exhibit “Ancestry 100: Churches,” which tells the stories of the African American churches in Powhatan from the 1800s to today.
Event“Roots Run Deep” Tours: Launch Event
The Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project presents its “Roots Run Deep” tour launch event, taking place at several locations across the Valley.
EventLocks Opened: Left Behind
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold, looks at the fugitive slaves from the Underground Railroad and shares what they left behind – family, clothes, name, even life.
EventLocks Opened: Sanctuary
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares stories and songs that remind us that we should be a people lighting the way to a refuge of freedom.
EventLocks Opened: Waterways to Freedom
Through story and song, Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares about local waterways that were part of the Underground Railroad.
EventLocks Opened: Children at the Border
The Underground Railroad of the 1800s did not just help free adults. Many a child came with, and without, parents, often through the same perils and sometimes in “plain sight.”
EventLocks Opened: EXTRA ORDINARY!
Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold shares the most extraordinary and death-defying escapes for freedom by fugitive enslaved people.
