Lylburn Downing School has been a part of the Lexington community for almost a century. It opened in 1927 to provide education for black children and closed in 1965 when schools were desegregated.
A fundraising campaign has brought in about $130,000 for the statue outside the Roanoke Municipal Building, and a documentary about Roanoke’s hidden histories.
The plantation held a Memorial day event to remember and reflect on the sites full history, including 216 enslaved people who lived and worked on the plantation.
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.