Launched in 2020 by artist Hamilton Glass, Mending Walls is a public art project that connects artists and community members from different backgrounds.
Browsing: Richmond History
At the Junior Center, young members enjoyed free classes, exhibits, lectures, tours, and fields trips – all of which were designed to supplement school curriculum.
When Parney says “Baseball is more than a game,” he means the Flying Squirrels are committed to lifting up the community it has played in since 2010.
From school baseball teams to neighborhood ball to the earlier semi-pro leagues for Black players, catch up with the history of Black baseball in Richmond.
The history of Richmond’s renowned rural cemetery – a bucolic burial for some Richmonders and two U.S. Presidents.
Confederate spy, Poe’s friend, hearing impaired – a complicated figure in southern history, see why Susan Archer Talley’s life is the stuff of novels.
The allure of skating – gliding free from gravity – is undeniable. Ice skating is so old that historians are unsure when it was even invented. Some believe it existed as early…
This first affair in 1854 was mainly a livestock exhibition hosted by the Virginia State Agricultural Society. The State Fair of Virginia has evolved!
Fifteen years before Rosa Parks sparked the modern Civil Rights movement, a young Black lawyer opened a law practice in Richmond. Born in this city in 1907, Oliver Hill had grown…
In 1886, the Shriners – also known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine – established a Richmond chapter called Acca Temple. A secret society…
After World War II, the federal GI Bill prompted a vast suburban expansion across the nation. Here in our region, cheap, subsidized tract housing lured many white Richmonders from the…
After seizing power in Germany in 1933, the Nazis instituted a slew of anti-Jewish decrees designed to remove Jews from economic and social life. By 1935, with the passage of…