NewsPresenting: Overcoming Extremism
Skip to show segment Overcoming Extremism Mike Signer and Elliot Majerczyk This week we’re sharing a new podcast series called Overcoming Extremism, supported by the Anti-Defamation League. The series is …
EventVisionaries
View original artworks by students ages 14-18 who, led by JMU Art Professor Susan Zurbrigg, participated in a summer 2019 workshop on racial healing and transformation. In 2019, the Northeast …
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 …
NewsEngaging Young People in Dialogues About Racism
By Raennah Mitchell In 2019, millennials are projected to surpass baby boomers as the largest living generation in America. And with a new wave of teen and young adult activists …
NewsA Conversation About Race
“A Conversation About Race with Dr. Beverly D. Tatum” is an Understanding Hampton Roads forum sponsored by the Hampton Roads Community Foundation in partnership with Virginia Humanities. This community event, …
NewsBeneath the Surface
The new Beneath the Surface: Race and the History of Race in South Hampton Roads initiative focuses on Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach. The goal is to deepen awareness of the role race plays in issues confronting the region and to lay groundwork for positive transformation.
NewsUnmasking Cville
The three-day #UnmaskingCville event took place June 21-23, 2018. It offered a safe space for candid and solution-centered dialogue about racism, led entirely by Charlottesville youth and young adults. Part …
NewsEmbrace Richmond
Using a process known as “Transformative Language Arts” local youth gather oral histories and bring them to life using creative writing, storytelling, songwriting, and dramatic performance.
NewsA Commitment to Inclusion
In response to recent events in VFH’s home town of Charlottesville, including rallies by the KKK, white nationalists, and alt-right groups, we have collected the following resources from our programs …
