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Black lives matter. Period. No further explanation or expansion of the phrase is needed. Do not try to switch the subject by wanting to suggest that all lives matter. For more than four centuries the lives of black people have been degraded. There have been numerous instances during that time when events would have suggested…
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Gov. Ralph Northam announced today the plans to remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee located on Monument Avenue in Richmond.
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AFP Digital Editor Crystal Graham and three guests presented our first Virtual Book Club on Facebook Live discussing “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead.
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The Virginia Museum of History & Culture announced new free online webinars for adults and History Connects programs for students this week.
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Gov. Ralph Northam today signed new laws that repeal racist and discriminatory language from Virginia’s Acts of Assembly, give localities the ability to remove or alter Confederate monuments in their communities.
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The libraries of Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond are working together to publish a new open-access edition of “The Politics of Annexation: Oligarchic Power in a Southern City.”
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Augusta Free Press has launched a Virtual Book Club led by digital editor Crystal Abbe Graham. With coronavirus keeping most of us away from in-person meetups for at least 30 days, AFP decided to create a way to virtually meetup in the meantime.
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Betcha didn’t know that in Virginia “no child shall be required to enroll in or attend any school wherein both white children and colored children are enrolled.”
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A tradition in the House of Delegates that has come about in recent years is to have a speech at the beginning of each daily session during February about a Black person. Some speeches are about well-known historic figures; most are about lesser-known Black persons who have made contributions to their communities and to the…
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Two new historic markers were unveiled Thursday honoring renowned civil-rights attorneys Oliver Hill and Spottswood Robinson.
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