
Exploring Coastal Virginia’s Racial Legacy of Place and Displacement
This event is part of an open play-making process, which shows how the arts can be particularly effective in reflecting on the history of social challenges and exploring their connections …

Stamped from the Beginning
This fall, Virginia Beach Public Libraries is offering a series of programs that explore the legacy of racial injustice in the Hampton Roads and Virginia Beach areas. The series entitled Stamped …

Undefeated StoryWalk
This fall, Virginia Beach Public Libraries is offering a series of programs that explore the legacy of racial injustice in the Hampton Roads and Virginia Beach areas. The series entitled Stamped …

Racism and Housing Practices Virtual Panel Discussion
Communities in Power is hosting virtual panel discussion entitled Racism and Housing Practices. A nonprofit organization based in Hampton Roads, Communities in Power is dedicated to exposing the legacy of …

LINKED: Stories Crossing the Color Line
How a grant from Virginia Humanities is helping the Richmond chapter expand its work of bringing Virginians together to face the legacy of slavery

Planned Destruction
Have you ever noticed that some neighborhoods are always much hotter than others?

Lighting Up A Better Future
In July, Virginia will become the first Southern state to legalize marijuana.

Protecting Human Rights
Domestic workers quite literally keep us alive. It’s about time they got their rights.

Who Votes?
Remember those twelve months where every ad was asking you to vote? It was inescapable. But even with historic voter turnout, a third of eligible adults didn’t vote.

Historical Fiction: Rachel Beanland, Brian Castleberry & Lauren Francis-Sharma
Novelists Rachel Beanland (Florence Adler Swims Forever), Brian Castleberry (Nine Shiny Objects), and Lauren Francis-Sharma (Book of the Little Axe) discuss their sweeping works of historical fiction, ranging from 18th-century Trinidad to 20th-century America, and grappling with colonialism, family secrets, racism, and questions of belief.
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