NewsAAPI Heritage Month Reading Recommendations
Emma Ito, director of education at Virginia Humanities, shares her reading recommendations for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
NewsVisions of Style
How Black Virginians used the camera to define themselves at the turn of the 20th Century.
NewsAnnouncing Our Class of 2023 K-12 Educator Fellows
We’re pleased to announce our newest cohort of K-12 Educator Fellows, administered to educators from all around Virginia committed to teaching the humanities.
NewsFood for Thought
We all remember what it was like entering the social battleground known as the school cafeteria. Aside from the usual cliques, there were two types of students: those who brought their lunch and those who bought their lunch. Marcus Weaver-Hightower says public schools should offer free lunches to all students.
NewsDividing Lines
In 1990s South Africa, there were violent clashes between Xhosa and Zulu people. And the main way they understood how to define the other group–language. But Jochen Arndt says that 300 years earlier, Xhosa and Zulu didn’t even exist as distinct languages.
NewsRosel Schewel’s Enduring Legacy in Virginia
To celebrate reaching our milestone goal for the Rosel Schewel Fund, we’re taking a look back at Rosel’s decades-long legacy of activism in Lynchburg and beyond.
