EventLocks Opened: CAUGHT!
Hear Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold share stories of those who were caught riding the Underground Railroad.
NewsSave the Small Sums
In 1865, the Freedman’s Bank was written into law by President Lincoln to help newly freed enslaved people save money and buy land. But the bank collapsed less than 10 years after it was established – throwing many Black Americans into financial ruin. Justene Hill Edwards says the racial wealth gap can be traced back to the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank.
EventJuneteenth Celebration
Join the Josephine School Community Museum, the Josephine Improvement Association, and the Clarke County Training School-Johnson Williams High School Reunion Association for their second annual Juneteenth Celebration.
EventRace, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the final installment of its 2023 Lecture Series.
EventBrooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women, ‘Wild Justice’ & Lethal Resistance to Slavery
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the next installment of its 2023 Lecture Series.
EventBeyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the next installment of its 2023 Lecture Series.
EventThe Poetic Justice
John Charles Thomas’s memoir “The Poetic Justice” reflects his twin loves of the law and of poetry, keeping readers rooted to the urgent issues that rock our communities.
EventMid-Century Fiction Lunch
From Jamila Minnicks, winner of the 2021 Penn/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction, and Sadeqa Johnson, the Library of Virginia People’s Choice award-winning author, come two novels set in the 1950s.
EventNational Book Foundation Presents: An Afternoon with the National Book Awards
John Keene (“Punks: New & Selected Poems”) and Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa (“His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice”) discuss how singular stories collectively shape history.
Event2023 Same Page Community Read
We’re pleased to share that our 2023 Same Page featured book is Ross Gay’s “The Book of Delights.” Gay will be in conversation about this book and his most recent work, “Inciting Joy.”
EventAmerican Inheritance
In “American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795,” Edward J. Larson grapples with the legacy of enslavement in America.
EventFurious Flower Poetry Hour
Join past and present members of JMU’s Furious Flower Poetry Center for poetry readings and discussion.
