America was built on white supremacy: But we can rebuild on a new foundation
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“White supremacy has no place in America,” President Biden said Tuesday in Buffalo. Except that it does, and it’s what America was founded on.
Search Results for Jim Crow
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Leslie D. Gregory: The Slap felt ‘round my world, and yours
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When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock in front of the audience at the Academy award ceremony I, like undoubtedly many people of color who saw it, felt a remote and intangible sorrow and trauma born of generations of marginalization in this country.
Jonathan Klate: Redemption and wholeness rather than guilt and shame
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There has never been a full reckoning with the racism that is woven into the fabric of our nation. And many are determined that there must never be.
McEachin, community leaders announce bill to protect African American burial grounds
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Congressman A. Donald McEachin announced his introduction of the African American Burial Grounds Preservation Act at an event at the University of Richmond this past weekend.
School choice in Virginia: Massive Resistance 2.0
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Don’t misunderstand what’s going on with the push for school choice in Virginia. It’s not about giving all parents a choice. Just the white ones.
Ken Plum: Black History Month at the State Capitol
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For nearly 250 years of Virginia’s history, Black people in the state were enslaved.
Virginia Museum of History & Culture announces Black History Month programs
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The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has announced special programs for February. All are open to the public with a limited number of in-person tickets available for lectures.
Righting past wrongs: Herring overrules discriminatory legal opinions
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Virginia attorneys general issued at least 58 opinions between 1904 and 1967 that either applied or interpreted racially discriminatory state laws.
Waynesboro is about to divide itself over a monument we didn’t know was there
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So many odd things with the news that Waynesboro is considering getting rid of the monument honoring a city native who lost his life in a battle fought here in the final days of the Civil War.
Virginia Museum of History & Culture honors authors
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The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is recognizing the authors of the best article to appear in its quarterly journal, as well as an author of a work in the field of Virginia biography.
