Charlottesville anti-racist organizers and community members, in solidarity with all those who struggle to #TakeEmAllDown, comment on the removal of the University of North Carolina Confederate statue.
I saw the first “Save the Name” sign in a front yard in Waynesboro a few weeks ago, and wondered to myself why someone here would care what Staunton called its high school.
It is somewhat ironic that Loving Day in Virginia, celebrated annually on June 12, has nothing to do with the famous “Virginia is for Lovers” public relations slogan.
Virginia athletics director Carla Williams and former UVA All-American football player, two-time Super Bowl champion Chris Long and All-ACC men’s basketball performer Akil Mitchell will be participants on a panel focusing on Athletics and Race.
Born into a segregated southern world, Rita Wilson had attended local schools that were set apart for African Americans. She later worked as a domestic for white families, which was one of the few jobs available to local African American women.
Montgomery Hall Park in Staunton is now on the National Register of Historic Places, an official list of the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation.
The Virginia Association of Museums awarded $18,500 in conservation grants to ten historic and cultural organizations from across the Commonwealth to help in the care of Virginia’s historic and cultural treasures.
Virginia House Democrats discussed several pieces of legislation to improve the lives and livelihoods of Virginia’s workers at a press conference on Wednesday.
Charles Dew, Ephraim Williams Professor of American History at Williams College, will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University’s Founders Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation on Jan. 18, at 5 p.m. in Lee Chapel.
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