Former Charlottesville reporter Jasmine Caldwell is among the 3 Black women recently taking the lead as anchors in Texas. Excerpt from Black...
Business
Vinegar Hill, Black History 24/7 | 365
Business, Community Development, Education
At Vinegar Hill, we are Black History 24/7 | 365. Check out this montage of people we have covered over the past few years. Photos by: Locs Image,...
Proposal for Black-Owned Richmond Casino Rejected by Voters
Business, Entertainment, Politics
Post written by Tamara D. Fair It’s no dice for Richmond’s Urban One casino project. The casino, which allegedly would have been the country’s first...
There is Always a Next: From Me2U Celebrates a Year in Business
Business, Community Development
by Sarad Davenport | Photos by Harmony Branding Back in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Pastor Windy Cooper did something that seemed illogical...
Pharrell Pulls His Music Fest From Virginia, Cites Upset Over Cousin's Fatal Shooting
Pharrell / Photo Credit: David Buchan / Stringer Pharrell Pulls His Music Fest From Virginia, Cites Upset Over Cousin's Fatal Shooting Donovan...
Energy Titan Generating Sustainability through Wind and Hope
Contributed by Milton Steppe of SteppeMedia Recently, I took a trip by boat with a group of community leaders to visit the wind farm currently under...
Nominations for The People’s Choice | We are Charlottesville | Best In Black Awards
Best In Black, Business, Community Development
Cast your nominations HERE Nominations for The People’s Choice | We are Charlottesville | Best In Black Awards are now open. We are so excited to...
Vinegar Hill and Discover Black C-Ville Collab
Business, Community Development, Entertainment
Vinegar Hill merch has partnered with Discover Black C-Ville to provide merch for those who want to celebrate and lift up the experience of Black...
Tech-NOIR-logy: Finding His Way and Building An Ecosystem of Diverse Tech Talent
by Sarad Davenport | Photos contributed by Broadus Palmer Just outside of Charlottesville is Fluvanna County and nestled inside of it is the rural...
Still Determined: Economic Revival
Business, Covid-19 Resources, Determined Series
A year into the COVID-19 crisis, the city of Charlottesville helps local minority-owned businesses fight back from the brink, and assists community...
A Letter to my Younger Self
Business, Community Development
by Quinton Harrell Before my wife and I were married, before we were even dating, I would often marvel over her recurring references to her parents...
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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...
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...
“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...
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