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The site observes the unknown number of people buried on campus land.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsThe 10-acre site is planned to commemorate Richmond's legacy as an slave trade epicenter. -
Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsTake a look at this week's top VPM News stories.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsThe 1895 Jackson Ward armory is a state and national Black history landmark.
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Ben Finley/APThe remains of hundreds of tenant farmers are being moved from the former Oak Hill tobacco plantation.
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Meghin Moore/VPM NewsThe plaque gives context to the sale of enslaved people in the Charlottesville area.
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Olivia Bowdoin/AP/FR172018 APIt wasn't about diversity, they say. It was about ending discrimination.
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Camille Farrah Lenain for NPR/Morgiane is perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM News"Brunswick would be a good learning opportunity for me. I knew they had newer books than what we had."
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Adrienne McGibbon/VPM News Focal PointIt’s getting finishing touches before heading to U.S. Capitol.
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsJubilee was denied attendance to Longwood during Jim Crow in the 1960s.
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Nine Gilpin Court and Jackson Ward residents gathered over the weekend to learn their DNA history. -
A new Virginia law opens the process to recognizes these places with historical markers.
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The exhibits feature Richmond-native Benjamin Wigfall and New York–based Whitfield Lovell.
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An Albemarle County judge tossed out the 125-year-old charge, which was first issued after James had already been killed.
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"Great Exodus from Bondage" is the ninth stop on the trail that opened in February.
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Artsline || July 3: Local arts and culture events, performances, classes, and exhibitions for the Richmond area, curated each week by VPM's Artsline.
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Artsline || June 26: Local arts and culture events, performances, classes, and exhibitions for the Richmond area, curated each week by VPM's Artsline.
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"Beyond Valor: United State Colored Troops and the Fight for Freedom" chronicles Black men who served in the Union Army.
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Artsline || June 12: Local arts and culture events, performances, classes, and exhibitions for the Richmond area, curated each week by VPM's Artsline.
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They are part of a small, vanishing group who lived at the struggle's epicenter.
