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Views about race relations remain incredibly complicated in America, even a year after the riot in Charlottesville.A majority of Americans believe race…
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Charlie Russell grew up on the west-side of Indianapolis in the 1950's. In his all-black neighborhood the racial violence of the south that he saw on…
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Virginia historians want your relics -- photos, letters, newspapers, yearbooks -- all in an effort to chronicle desegregation in the state.For more than 8…
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The justice system is supposed to be impartial and fair. Many, though, assume justice isn’t blind when it comes to matters of race or income. But now an…
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Throughout Virginia, the conversation about confederate monuments is a sticky one. So a new art exhibition in Richmond is making the conversation visual.…
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In the 1950s, construction of Interstate 95 in Richmond divided the Jackson Ward neighborhood, and then construction of the Richmond Coliseum leveled…
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Virginia Commonwealth University is one of the state’s most diverse four-year colleges. But if you’re a student there you may not see that diversity in…
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In recent months, Richmonders have been deciding how best to memorialize the city's difficult history with race and slavery. Between state and city funds…
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For the past five years a think-tank in Richmond has been researching, crunching numbers and collecting interviews to answer the question: What does the…
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Although segregation ended formally in the United States more than fifty years ago, there are places right here in Virginia that are still segregated, and…