A conversation between a Black woman and a white woman on Shifting Power and the need for Radical Imagination in the nonprofit sector. An equitable Richmond would be a place where leaders of color have access to the resources we need to protect the people we love...
The World Needs A New Recipe: A Foodie’s Take On International Politics
For Highland Support Project's Ben Blevins, the United States' goals for international relations should begin with decolonizing. And he can explain... starting with potatoes. When I was a child growing up in Richmond's West End, I had the luck of living next door to...
Op-Ed: The Militarization of the Border, Criminalization of Migration, and Policing of Poverty
For Madison Sweitzer and Ben Blevins of the Highland Support Project, buildup of militarized border protections, overpolicing of poor and minority populations, and massive wealth inequality all have a common root: the US's colonialist settler-state mentality. The...
Love Jumpers
This Valentine's Day, Death Club Radio's Phil Ford considers the doomed romantic tradition of the Lover's Leap, and asks: where did this macabre folk legend come from? I like to think I am a practical, sensible person -- although many have told me otherwise -- but I...
RVA Global: Like the Confederacy, Colonialism is Hard to Erase in Germany
Deeply German location names like Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Straße and Ausspannplatz will soon be redubbed in Germany after leaders of the decolonization movement such as Chief Kuaima Riruako, the founding father of the Herero people, and Augistinho Neto, first President...
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