by Katrina Spencer | Aug 22, 2023 | Community, Community Development, Education, History, Shelley Murphy
by Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy, Descendant Project Researcher, University of Virginia; featured photo by Emily Faith Morgan An avid genealogist for over 30 years, Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy, also known as “familytreegirl,” was born and raised in Michigan, and...
by Katrina Spencer | Aug 15, 2023 | Community, Community Development, Education, History, Hometown Heroes, Niya Bates
by Niya Bates; featured photo credit by author Thirteen miles northeast of Charlottesville, an unassuming, one-story, white school building with two front doors on either side of a gabled vestibule sits across a paved parking lot from the historic St. John Baptist...
by Katrina Spencer | Aug 8, 2023 | Community, Community Development, Education, Naila Smith
by Naila A. Smith, PhD; featured photo provided by Barbara M. Fitch In the summer of 1964, a group of students coordinated the first Freedom School in the state of Mississippi and started a movement that continues to this day and takes place all over the country...
by Katrina Spencer | Aug 1, 2023 | Business, Community, Community Development, Education, Gail Esterman
by Gail Esterman; featured photo by Princess Long My name is Gail Esterman and I have always been drawn to stories about how children are treated by our society and wondered why we choose to fail so many when we could do better. In my professional life, spanning New...
by Katrina Spencer | Jul 24, 2023 | Arts, Community, Community Development, Jessica Harris
by Jessica Harris; featured photo by Hyeyon Moon The Unsettling Grounds mobile app is now available to download on all iOS and Android devices at https://unsettlinggrounds.com/. Marisa Williamson is an artist unafraid of pushing boundaries and challenging...
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