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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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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NewsWhat does it take to be an informed citizen?
How do you read, hear, or view the news? How do you learn about local, regional, or state government policies and actions? Where do you find sports scores? Arts listings? …
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NewsAn especially malevolent form of American entrepreneurship
“Slave trader.” It’s one of the most loathsome expressions in the English language. Even enslavers claimed to recoil at that designation in the era when slavery flourished. Andrew Jackson took umbrage at being called a “negro-trader” during the bitter presidential election of 1828, even though the slaves he bought and sold as a young man […]
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
