RICHMOND, VA, Aug. 11 — A multiracial crowd of more than 150 people gathered today in front of Richmond City Hall to demand that city and state officials take a stronger stand against ICE operations in the city.
At a public meeting held Dec. 10 at the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, the community was offered the first public progress report on the design of the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground memorial.
The next time you visit the Lumpkin’s Jail site, there will be archaeology happening.
This year marked 23 years of honoring the memory and legacies of “Gabriel’s Rebellion” and the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground.
An editorial by Aurora Higgs, a Richmond-based producer, actor, consultant and professional speaker, on the transgender experience in Virginia.
An update on the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground memorial. The proposed theme for the memorial is “Hush Harbor”: hush harbors (or arbors) were the secret spaces in the woods where enslaved people could gather unobserved to rest, worship or plan.
Until recently, few people in the Greater Richmond area knew their local airport is being used as a major hub for transporting immigrants from ICE detention centers to major centers from which the detainees are eventually deported.
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