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
NewsSHELF LIFE—Worlds within Words: A Poetry Reading
Watch the Shelf Life event with poets Nin Andrews, Sandra Beasley, Vijay Seshadri, and Katherine E. Young…
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NewsResources for Educators
Whether you’re a classroom teacher, librarian, parent, or someone who wants to share a love of reading with the young people in your life, we invite you to check out …
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NewsBook Arts receives Jefferson Trust Flash Grant
We are honored to have received a Jefferson Trust flash grants to support Book Arts at the Virginia Center for the Book. The Jefferson Trust makes grants to innovative ideas …
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NewsQ&A with Shelf Life author Katherine E. Young
Get to know Shelf Life poet Katherine E. Young…
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NewsQ&A with Shelf Life author Sandra Beasley
Get to know Shelf Life poet Sandra Beasley…
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NewsQ&A with Shelf Life author Nin Andrews
Get to know Shelf Life poet Nin Andrews…
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NewsJosef Beery Introduces the Franklin Press at UVA Special Collections
A Book Arts’ Online Presentation For three-and-a-half centuries everything printed in the West was produced on a simple press of a common design. The University of Virginia has a full-size …
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NewsA Promise to Grow
Virginia Humanities & City of Promise to Publish Children’s Book Celebrating 10th & Page Neighborhood
NewsREPLAY: Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry
There are poems that stay with us, and order our steps.
