The Greening Southside Richmond Project is looking to tackle the issues of extreme heat and socioeconomic disparities caused by racist, discriminatory housing practices in Richmond’s vulnerable neighborhoods -- one tree at a time. On a hot summer afternoon in...
The economic policies of the New Deal helped to bring America out of the Great Depression and set it on course for a post-war economic boom. They also codified systemic racial discrimination throughout the South, and RVA was no exception to the rule. The economic...