NewsTake Me Out To The Ballgame
With sporting events on hold for the foreseeable future, With Good Reason brings you the story of how one rugby announcer is spending his time, along with changing baseball demographics and the famous female fan who inspired “Take Me Out To The Ballgame.”
NewsImmunity Gardens: Returning to our First Medicine
Along the stream, birds gather under and along the thick perch. “It wakes me up every morning,” Lilia Fuquen tells me. As Virginia Humanities’ director of Food & Community, her …
NewsBack to the Land
Gardening provides the fresh air, exercise, food, and distraction that many people need right now. And “immunity gardens” are emerging to add more to that list.
NewsThe Dark Matter of Mona Starr
In this webinar, recorded May 14 2020, author and illustrator Laura Lee Gulledge discusses her new graphic novel, The Dark Matter of Mona Starr, with Amber Loyacano. “Heartfelt, emotionally vulnerable, …
NewsThe Mindfulness Room
In this webinar, recorded May 12 2020, Amanda Lynch, author of The Mindfulness Room, and Mack McLellan, Jr., talk about self-care, mindfulness, and restorative justice—for children and adults alike. “Guided …
NewsGoing Viral
UVA doctors got to work immediately to create COVID-19 testing kits in a race against time. And another battle is being waged against the spread of misinformation on social media.
NewsA Political History of the Food Stamp Program
Tracy Roof is writing a history of the food stamp program, also known as SNAP. Roof says the book will be the first of its kind. We caught up with her to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing her research.
NewsA Good Provider is One Who Leaves
In this webinar recorded on May 7 2020, author Jason DeParle discusses his newest book, A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: Family and Migration in the 21st Century, with …
NewsDeb Olin Unferth and Jeff VanderMeer
In her latest, Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8) wryly takes on animal activism with a heist at a chicken farm. Jeff VanderMeer (Dead Astronauts), in his signature cli-fi style, builds a world in the …
