Team Henry Enterprises, a Norfolk-based, Black-owned construction firm, has been selected by the Shockoe Institute Foundation to turn the ground floor of the Main Street Station into a welcome and interpretive center. Also, New Orleans-based musician Leyla McCalla has been hired as the founding artistic director of the Shockoe Institute.
Why is the Shockoe Institute on the ground floor & not the upper floor of the Main Street Station?
Isn’t the ground floor in the floodplain? And won’t we lose the best views? If these questions wrack your brain, you are not alone, but there are reasons.
Designing a memorial for the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground
By late summer, a refined design concept for the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground Memorial will be advertised for public review. The whole packet, including cost estimates, will be submitted to the City of Richmond’s authentiCITY Studio, concluding the current contract with the Baskervill design firm.
Shockoe Project progressing on multiple fronts
$33 million has been committed from the city of Richmond and the state of Virginia for the launch of the Shockoe Project, the working title for the 10-acre memorial park to be constructed on the site of what once was the epicenter of the U.S. domestic slave trade.
Exhibit: Virginia & the Vietnam War
On display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture from Nov. 23, 2024, to July 6, 2025: “This exhibit examines, through personal objects and oral histories, what Virginia’s soldiers, policy makers, families, activists, and Vietnamese migrants carried both physically and emotionally during the war and its aftermath.”
Farid Alan Schintzius
Our tribute to Farid Alan Schintzius.
Mutual aid organizations provide food & financial assistance
A profile of several mutual aid organizations around the city.
The Virginia Defender 