Central Virginia Agrarian Commons land trust helps BIPOC farmers ‘build a system the community controls’
The trust owns at least 150 acres, which serve as fertile training ground for future Black farmers By Tiana Woodard PETERSURG – Across from Pleasants Lane Elementary School, a gift for the city’s past, present, and future is sprouting for the season. Farmer Tyrone Cherry III points out Mama Cherry’s…
Nothing Feels Real Anymore — And Deep Down, We All Know It
by Khalilah Jones There was a time when people built relationships slowly. Intentionally. Over phone calls that lasted too long (and end with the obligatory “well, I didn’t want nothing”).…
The Memory & Rhyme In Our Blood: Black Aesthetic, Oral Tradition, and Afrofuturism within Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau
Photo Credit: Kori Price by Leslie M. Scott-Jones Some of you may not understand what goes into the creation of a theatrical production. So, I thought I would bring you…
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Black Women Weather the Storm of Unemployment
Erica Adams sits at her desk at Santa Monica College in Southern California, April 2026, where she works as a college administrator. She and 72 of her co-workers have received layoff notices. Their work ends…
On ‘Michael,’ A Multigenerational Icon
Marcus C., 7, poses for a photo dressed as superstar Michael Jackson in a parking lot outside of the Pflugerville Cinemark movie theater in Austin, Texas, April 2026. Marcus was not living while Jackson was…
School-Day Soundtrack: Mothering My Black Autistic Son
The author’s son, Isaiah, prepares to eat breakfast during his morning routine. Photo provided by Julie Taiwo Quarles by Julie Taiwo Quarles Julie Taiwo Quarles is a Los Angeles-based playwright and English professor. Her plays…
Keep Jim Crow Out Our Mailbox: Engaging Race, Power and Voting in the Upcoming Virginia Special Election
Front of mailer. On top of black and white images of civil rights protests reads the text, “Our Ancestors Fought to Represent Us, Now Richmond Politicians are Trying to Take Our Districts Away.” Photo credit:…
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A Cinematic Celebration: Ty Cooper on the 2026 Indie Short Film Festival
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Finding Our Narratives at the 2026 Virginia Festival of the Book
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