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Join the Springhouse Community School on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for a free screening of the 2019 film Just Mercy.
January 16, 2023 | 2PM | Floyd
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The I Am Worth It Youth Summit will be held on December 18, 2022. A total of 100 youth and 50-60 parents from across the Richmond Metro Area will participate …
December 18, 2022 | 1PM – 5PM | Richmond
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
September 28 – October 1, 2022 | Charlottesville
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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 …
September 9, 2022 | 5:30PM – 8PM | Fork Union
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What does William Faulkner and a cool pair of sneakers have in common? More than you might think.
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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.
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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 …