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 | May 24, 2023 | Community Development, Education, Entertainment, History, Hometown Heroes, Niya Bates
by Niya Bates and Ms. Maxine Holland If you’ve attended a Black cultural event in Charlottesville, chances are you’ve seen Ms. Maxine Holland adorned in regal West African prints, with a gele (Nigerian) or duku (Ghanaian) head wrap crowning her head as she danced...
by Katrina Spencer | Apr 21, 2023 | Community, Community Development, Hometown Heroes, Katrina Spencer, Religion
Hands down, Carolyn Dillard wins two superlative categories in my book. For one, she is the most stylish person I’ve met in all of Charlottesville. When we meet to talk in the Belmont neighborhood, she’s wearing a fitted top in an army fatigue pattern with a generous...
by Katrina Spencer | Apr 10, 2023 | Community, Community Development, Hometown Heroes, Katrina Spencer
Written by Katrina Spencer; featured image by Kori Price When we sit down, it’s at the Shenandoah Joe’s on 10th & Preston, right alongside Washington Park, the area Eddie Harris grew up in, “on the Height.” It’s unseasonably warm outside– over 80...
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