An interview with Viola Baskerville, who is holding a rally to save the historic Richmond Community Hospital at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at 1209 Overbrook Road. What, and how, we honor reveals a lot about our society. When the Confederate statues came down on Monument,...
A More Complete History
Virginia Museum Of History and Culture's Determined exhibit sheds light on four hundred years of black Virginians' struggles to be seen as equal. The Virginia Museum of History and Culture’s latest exhibit, Determined: The 400 Year Struggle for Black Equality, sets...
Increasing Access To An Important Chapter In African-American History
Working together, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and the Library of Virginia are making it easier than ever for researchers to study the history of enslaved African-Americans in Virginia. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (WMHC) and the...
Controversy/History Exposes Racist History of Virginia’s Health Care System
From body snatchers to windowless basement clinics, the history of African-American health care in Virginia is an ugly one. And as The Valentine's Controversy/History series revealed last week, some of those problems are still all-too-prevalent today. Beliefs based in...
Girl Power in Everlasting Bronze
This is girl power at its finest. The Virginia Capitol Foundation’s latest project is finally underway, as the first four bronze statues for the Virginia Women’s Monument were commissioned this week. Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women’s Monument will...
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