Black History

National Museum of American History Addresses Anti-Black Violence Through Defaced Sign Contributed article The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open “Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice and the Murder of…

VSU Partners with Chesterfield County for 32nd Black History Month Celebration By Madyson Fitzgerald This month marks the 32nd annual Black History Month Celebration, presented by Virginia State University in…

By Bernard Freeman Black Genealogy Tracing Black family roots can be complicated for many reasons. One of the biggest reasons is slavery and its consequences. The first African Americans were…

 A Black History Month recap from VCU’s Campus and Beyond By: Katja Timm With all of the political turmoil that happened last month at Virginia’s capital, it can be easy…

Overby-Sheppard Elementary School presents their Black History Month Celebration Production “GENERATIONS:  Past, Present & Future” Thursday, February 28, 2019, 6:00 pm, at Overby-Sheppard Elementary School – 2300 1st Ave. Richmond,…

By Nia Simone McLeod The significance of Virginia’s Black history is as deep as the James River. From past to present, Virginia has birthed many trailblazing Black voices that have…

Black History Month Tribute By Bernard Freeman Two Lesser known African American figures Mary McLeod Bethune The fifteenth of 17 children born to former slaves, Mary McLeod Bethune grew up…

By Bernard Freeman February is Black History Month not only in the U.S., but in the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands In America It started when Carter G. Woodson,…

By Debora Timms Richmond native Betty K. Bynum said her first steps into the world of children’s literature were a fluke. The actress and singer, who lives in Los Angeles,…

By Barbara Reynolds TriceEdneywire.com Coretta Scott King died on January 30, 2006.  Yet her legacy is very much alive as a coalition builder, a strategist and a moral voice that…