Community Development | Health and Wellness

Visit Every Black-Owned Restaurant this Summer Using this Checklist

Download the Black Restaurant Checklist. Share with your friends that you have supported every Black restaurant in Charlottesville before the summer ends.

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Vinegar Hill Magazine is a space that is designed to support and project a more inclusive social narrative, to promote entrepreneurship, and to be a beacon for art, culture, and politics in Central Virginia.

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Business, Community Development, National Headlines

Former Charlottesville Reporter Jasmine Caldwell Makes History

Former Charlottesville reporter Jasmine Caldwell is among the 3 Black women recently taking the lead as anchors in Texas. Excerpt from Black Enterprise Magazine article by Jeroslyn Johnson On Monday, May 2, KCEN introduced the official anchor lineup for Texas...

CIM Project, Community Development

First Person C-Ville Launches

We are looking for your stories. These can be told from your own personal point of view, or as reported pieces sharing community members’ perspectives. Please keep in mind that we are not seeking pieces that are purely your opinion. This doesn’t mean it can’t...

Community Development, Education, Entertainment

Raised/Razed, a Maupintown Media Production Sets to Premiere at the Heritage Center

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Lorenzo Dickerson and Jordy Yager proudly present Raised/Razed, a documentary film about the life and destruction of Vinegar Hill, one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in Charlottesville, Va. Raised/Razed, a Maupintown Media...

Education, Entertainment

What Did the Black Artists Movement Teach Us?

by Leslie M. Scott-Jones On February second in 1969 the New York Times published an entire page of essays written by luminaries from the Black Artist Movement. Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin, Douglas Turner Ward and Barbara Ann Teer among others wrote about the...

Education, Entertainment

“New Negro” Pop-Up Portrait Exhibition Explores Hidden History

Charlottesville, VA: The Holsinger Portrait Project, a partnership between the University of Virginia and the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, will present a pop-up exhibition, The New Negro in Charlottesville and Albemarle: Portraits from a...