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Mi Voz, Mi Cultura

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Celebrating American Freedom

A new state holiday with deep roots.

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REPLAY: Giving Birth While Black

Black women are three and a half times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.

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REPLAY: Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry

There are poems that stay with us, and order our steps.

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Outdoor Archives

Cemeteries are outdoor archives. After decades of neglect, volunteers are clearing the brush and illuminating America’s repressed histories.

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Separate and Unequal

Desegregation took a lot of nerve from brave students, who mourned leaving behind their all-black schools to enter hostile spaces.

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Working Through History

Jim Crow continues to impact the American labor market, and COVID-19 is making the workplace increasingly inequitable for women of all races.

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Replay: New Virginians

There are many kinds of movement and migration, forced and otherwise. Arrival is a perpetual state of becoming for the people in transit and the nations where they arrive.

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Replay: Poetic Justice

When writer and Invisibilia producer Lulu Miller discovered she’d be leaving Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state–one that charges everyday people to stay angry about injustice.

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Redlining and Reparations

The homeownership gap between whites and African Americans has exploded since the housing bust. It’s now wider than it was during the Jim Crow era.

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Giving Birth While Black

Black women are three and a half times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Even highly educated, wealthy black women are at a greater risk of complications than white women.

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