Virginia Humanities

Where Did Segregation Come From?

A talk by Ed Ayers

Dr. Edward L. Ayers will present “Where Did Segregation Come From?” as part of The Prizery’s One Community Initiative on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 7 pm. Segregation was not natural; it had to be invented and reinvented to keep pace with a changing South. This lecture will explore what that separation meant for black and […]

Re-Envision Race and Education in the New South

The Center for Race and Public Education in the South will host Gloria Ladson-Billings, author of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children and James D. Anderson, author of The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935 at a two-day symposium in October. Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Distinguished Professor of Urban Education in the Department of […]

Race and the Constitution

Join Justin Reid, director of African American Programs at Virginia Humanities, for a talk on Race and the Constitution at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Free and open to the public.

African, Native American & European Foods Come Together

at Film Discussion in Danville on September 18th

Danville, Va. – Filmmaker Jamie S. Ross will show clips from her latest film, At the Common Table, at the Danville Public Library on Tuesday September 18, 2018. The screening and discussion are the last in a series produced by History United, a program of Virginia Humanities, called Our Civil Rights: A Common Table. The […]

A Night Out at Giddens’ Legendary Do Drop Inn

Join us for a special reunion concert at the Do-Drop Inn, an African-American cultural landmark on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. As part of a larger Virginia Humanities grant funded oral history project on the “Do-Drop Inn,” WHRO is collaborating with Do-Drop Inn owner Jane Cabarrus to organize a reunion concert night at on September 22. The participating […]

Virginia Black Cultural Preservation Summit to Take Place in Hampton

Hampton, Virginia – The Virginia General Assembly’s African American Cultural Resources (AACR) Task Force will hold its first public event—the Virginia Black Cultural Preservation Summit—on Saturday, August 11, 2018, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. In May 2017 then governor Terry McAulliffe signed HB 2296, calling for a task […]

Virginia Black Cultural Preservation Summit

Aug. 11 - Hampton

In May 2017 then governor Terry McAulliffe signed HB 2296, calling for a task force to “identify the history of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia and determine ways to preserve the history for educational and cultural purposes.” After a year of outreach to statewide preservation experts and community stakeholders, the African American Cultural Resources […]

Julian Bond Transcribe-A-Thon

Aug. 14-15 - Charlottesville

The University of Virginia is embarking on a project to make social justice and civil rights icon Julian Bond’s collection of documents accessible to the world through a crowdsourced transcription effort. #TranscribeBond is the first stage in the ultimate production of an online, digital edition. The Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Center for […]

In Pursuit of Truth

An Evening with the National Book Awards

On March 24, 2018, during the twenty-fourth annual Virginia Festival of the Book, 2017 National Book Awards finalists Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Never Caught) and David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon) joined 2017 National Book Awards longlisted author Kevin Young (Bunk) in a discussion of the stories and facts their books brought to light, the hidden […]