VMFA celebrates Black History Month with exhibitions, installations, and special events honoring African American artists and community builders.
Browsing: Black History
Launched in 2020 by artist Hamilton Glass, Mending Walls is a public art project that connects artists and community members from different backgrounds.
Teach your children about Barbara Johns and her brave peers to fought segregation. Read at home and then travel to Farmville to bring the history to life.
Flying Squirrels to host a free screening of the critically acclaimed Negro League documentary, “The Other Boys of Summer,” at the Black History Museum.
Virginia media mogul BK Fulton’s love for his younger sister shaped his worldview and his commitment to creativity – from books to Broadway, get to know BK!
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.
As spokesperson for VMHC’s “Apollo – When We Went to the Moon,” retired astronaut Leland Melvin leads the way for Richmond’s amazing Summer of Space!
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia (BHMVA) names Shakia Gullette Warren as executive director of the facility.
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…
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…
The Virginia Constitution of 1869 established a statewide system of free public schools. The schools evolved in the 1900s with both Jim Crow restrictions and Progressive Era reforms. Even progressive movements, though, were rife with racism, and Black activists rarely had a…