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Are We There Yet?

In 2019, the New York Times published a long-form journalistic history of America called the 1619 Project, named after the year that “20 and odd” enslaved Africans arrived at Point Comfort, a coastal port at the tip of the Virginia peninsul...

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Ota Benga Memorial Program

The Fifth Annual Ota Benga Memorial Program

6:00pm March 21st

St John’s Episcopal Church in Lynchburg, Virginia

The tragic story of Ota Benga, a man from the Pygmy people of the Congo who lived the last years of his life in Lynchburg, Vi...

4 months ago
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In Case You Missed It: Rev. Dr. Owen Cardwell, Jr.

In 1962, Rev. Dr. Owen Cardwell, Jr., enrolled and entered ninth grade at E.C. Glass High School as one of the first two Black students. A year later, Cardwell attended the March on Washington and heard Martin Luther King give his “I Have a...

5 months ago
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In Case You Missed It: Massive Resistance

In 1959, Barbara Johns, a Black teenager, courageously led a walkout of Prince Edward County Virginia’s underfunded Black public school, one of the watersheds of the famous Brown vs Board of Education ruling. Resistance followed in the clos...

6 months ago
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Day 16: Across the Bridge

May we pursue the best for our city’s students today, in the spirit of the undeniably great African American leaders of the past and present who devoted their lives to improving Lynchburg.

Education is deeply ingrained in the fabric of Lyn...

a year ago
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