NewsPressing Pause: A Community Book Project During COVID-19
A Q&A with Virginia Humanities Grantee Studio Pause, an art and bookmaking studio located in the Gates of Ballston affordable housing community in Arlington.
NewsLighting Up A Better Future
In July, Virginia will become the first Southern state to legalize marijuana.
NewsDouble Draw Dare with Tom Angleberger & Dub Leffler
Children’s book author-illustrators Tom Angleberger (DJ Funkyfoot! Butler for Hire) and Dub Leffler (Once There Was a Boy, Sorry Day, Bindi, and Strangers on Country) took part in this interactive, …
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NewsAnnouncing the 2021-2022 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Class
The Virginia Folklife Program at Virginia Humanities is proud to announce the 2021-2022 class of master artists and apprentices.
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NewsMeet our interns!
Cassie Deering
Cassie is a second-year Speech and Communication Disorders major at the University of Virginia. Cassie was a host, writer, and editor for Intersections in Public Service, a public policy podcast by the Weldon Cooper Center. Before that, she was a sound engineering intern at WTJU Radio, which ignited her passion for audio. Cassie also plays in the drumline for the Cavalier Marching Band, and at home, she dabbles in keyboard percussion and classical guitar. Cassie enjoys using her love of music to transform audio into an atmospheric experience.
Maya Nir
Maya Nir is an active, eager third-year student at UVA. She lives just down the road from Virginia Humanities’ new office, and has enjoyed engaging more with the Charlottesville and Virginia community in this role. She is passionate about journalism, international relations, and social justice. When she’s not doing school work or connecting with new guests for the show, you can find her on the frisbee field (go Hydra!), volunteering at Caromont farm (eating a lot of goat cheese), or fostering dogs and puppies from the CSPCA.
News2021 Great Reads: Your Mama
Every year, the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress features a book from each of the affiliate Centers for the Book, creating an annual list of Great Reads. …
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News2021 Route 1 Reads: Poetry
As summer gets underway, Route 1 Reads can kickstart your summer reading! A road trip-inspired reading list from state Centers for the Book along Route 1, this year’s Route 1 …
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News“Acceptable, But not Accepted”
An Interview with Ting-Yi Oei, director of the Asian American Education Program and Education Director for the 1882 Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based organization whose initial focus was to secure an Expression of Regret from the United States, apologizing for the Chinese Exclusion Acts and their impact on Chinese and other Asian Americans.
NewsChallenging Slavery in the Courtroom: A Question of Freedom
William G. Thomas III shares his intricate and intensely human history of enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, and the hundreds of lawsuits they brought against slavery…
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NewsBlack Women’s Battle for the Ballot with Evette Dionne & Martha S. Jones
Evette Dionne, editor-in-chief of Bitch Media and author of Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, discussed her book with Martha S. Jones…
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NewsProtecting Human Rights
Domestic workers quite literally keep us alive. It’s about time they got their rights.
NewsThe 70th Anniversary of the Moton School Walkout
How student activism in Farmville, Virginia instigated the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education (1952-1954) decision to desegregate public schools
