Virtual Book Club: AFP leads discussion of ‘The Nickel Boys’
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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.
Search Results for Jim Crow
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Virginia Museum of History & Culture announces new webinars
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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.
Northam signs justice, equality legislation
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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.
VCU, UR libraries publish free edition of ‘The Politics of Annexation’
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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.”
AFP launches Virtual Book Club with ‘The Nickel Boys’
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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.
Northam signs law repealing language relating to school segregation
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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.”
Ken Plum: Black History Month 2020
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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…
New historic markers honor civil-rights attorneys Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson
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Two new historic markers were unveiled Thursday honoring renowned civil-rights attorneys Oliver Hill and Spottswood Robinson.
Wexton, McEachin call for replacement of Lee statue
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Jennifer Wexton and Donald McEachin have written to Gov. Ralph Northam to call for the replacement of Virginia’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, housed in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol Building.
Ken Plum: Start with a clean slate
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Taking down Confederate monuments is but one part of a continuing story in Virginia as the Commonwealth tries to come to grips with its racist history. The story is in no way a pretty one.
