EventAfrikana Independent Film Festival
We’re excited to co-sponsor the 5th Anniversary Afrikana Independent Film Festival, September 17-20! This year’s all-virtual Afrikana experience remains a space that celebrates, elevates, and further validates Black stories, Black …
NewsMore 19th Amendment Centennial Events Announced
A series of four virtual events celebrating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote kicked off last week with a conversation between two powerful, creative women: Nikki …
NewsHave a Drink with Nikki and Tressie
This video, recorded September 9 2020, features two powerful, creative women: Nikki Giovanni, award-winning poet, activist, educator, and one of Oprah Winfrey’s “25 Living Legends,” and Tressie McMillan Cottom, professor …
EventAfrican American Foodways Cooking Demonstration
Stratford Hall’s 1738 kitchen will become center stage with historical interpreter and chef, Dontavius Williams. Cooking traditional African American dishes, Williams will share stories of plantation kitchen labor and the …
NewsThe Spirit of the City
By Nora Pehrson Richmond Hill is an ecumenical fellowship, residence, and urban retreat center in downtown Richmond that seeks to heal and develop “the spirit of the city” through inclusive …
NewsShort Film About Virginia Slave Dwellings Receives Regional Emmy
Virginia Humanities announced today that the film, Mapping Virginia’s Slave Dwellings, has been awarded a National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter Emmy Award in the category “Historical / Cultural: Program Feature.” …
NewsRace for Profit
In this webinar, recorded August 13, 2020, professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discusses her highly-acclaimed book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership in conversation with …
EventAfrican American Foodways Cooking Demonstration
Stratford Hall’s 1738 kitchen will become center stage with historical interpreter and chef, Dontavius Williams. Cooking traditional African American dishes, Williams will share stories of plantation kitchen labor and the …
NewsReplay: New Virginians
There are many kinds of movement and migration, forced and otherwise. Arrival is a perpetual state of becoming for the people in transit and the nations where they arrive.
NewsGreat Reads Featuring ‘The Undefeated’
In this webinar, recorded July 28 2020, Newbery Award-winning author Kwame Alexander discusses his picture book The Undefeated, with Tasha Birckhead. Winner of the 2020 Caldecott Medal, a 2020 Newbery …
NewsTravelers
In this webinar, recorded July 23 2020, novelist Helon Habila discusses his latest book, Travelers, with Alane Salierno Mason. Travelers is a startlingly imaginative exploration of the African diaspora in …
EventCourt Square as a Public Space
This conversation about the meaning and importance of Charlottesville’s Court Square as a public space, features Elgin Cleckley, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Education, and Health at UVA; Justin Reid, Director …
