Virginia Humanities

Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women & Girls

Two-time Virginia Humanities residential Fellow and associate professor of Africana studies at Virginia Tech, Paula Marie Seniors was an editor of the recently published collection of essays, poetry, and art, Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls. The collection explores how First Lady Michelle Obama gradually expanded and broadened her role by engaging in social, […]

On the Tracks

The African American Women of Gordonsville and the Train “On the Tracks” is part of the book manuscript Riding Jane Crow: African American Women and the American Railroad, a social and literary history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century black female train travel. Although the railroad was one of the most significant forms of transportation in […]

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.

2018 Afrikana Independent Film Festival

Sorry To Bother You director headlines 2018 Afrikana Independent Film Festival Boots Riley, writer-director of the summer breakout, indie film hit, Sorry to Bother You, is headlining the third annual Afrikana Independent Film Festival (AIFF) in Richmond, November 29 – December 2, 2018. Tickets are available at https://www.afrikanafilmfestival.org/buy-tickets Virginia Humanities is once again co-sponsoring the […]

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 […]