Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107.
Pocahontas’ legacy in Virginia is complicated. We know nothing of her story from her own perspective, and her story was enshrined by white colonists and corporations.
First Baptist Church’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Worship Service was planned for January. But inclement weather led the church to postpone it to Sunday.
An organization in Martinsville has a unique mission, as it responds to the crisis in Ukraine. The Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab is located at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, and is leading U.S. efforts to monitor and map Ukraine’s cultural heritage sites.
Trained as a nurse, she founded an orphanage, worked with the elderly, pushed for more schools for the African American community, and organized political fundraising.