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...
Editorial: Learn To Follow… The Work White People Must Do
In a time of nation wide protests against racist police violence, RVA Magazine Managing Partner Landon Shroder urges white people to do the work, support Black protesters, and follow their lead in standing against a system of white supremacy. When I worked in Iraq, I...
Op-Ed: Bad Faith Broke Us. Only Good Faith Can Fix Us.
"The soul of this nation is sick because of the bad faith of white supremacy. That bad faith both made us what we are, and continues to break us apart. But there is a cure." As 2019 approaches its end, and as the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts unveils Kehinde...
RVA Global: Taking on Trump’s Tweet about “White” South Africa
Last summer, my VCU study-abroad students and I stood in the dim but pretty interior of a little house made of corrugated tin in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa. With us was Thulani Madondo, a 2012 CNN hero, a vibrant, fast-talking South African who...
White Nationalists Are Still Winning
One year has gone by since James Fields, Jr. killed Heather Heyer and wounded 30 others at Unite the Right in Charlottesville last August, the largest gathering of white supremacists and fascists in decades. Since then, nothing has changed. In fact, things have...
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