VPM News Focal Point

VPM News Focal Point is a television series that frames statewide news through a lens of in-depth reporting on culture, politics, business, health, the environment, race, science and the arts.

Stream VPM News Focal Point anytime on the PBS App

Episodes Articles Team

Screenshot

/

VPM News Focal Point

Can reflective listening, civil exchange solve sociopolitical divides?

Angie Miles
,
October 11, 2024

Ben Klutsey, executive director of the George Mason University Mercatus Center, has some suggestions.
Screen capture

/

VPM News Focal Point

Land Trusts Aim to Make Homes Affordable

Angie Miles
,
June 3, 2024

Affordable housing developers in Virginia are building homes using a CLT approach in localities and now through the Virginia Statewide Community Land Trust
Screen capture

/

VPM News Focal Point

Historian speaks on the Great Migration

Angie Miles
,
May 6, 2024

Between 1915 and 1970, approximately 6 million African Americans left their homes in the Southern United States and went in search of opportunity. Most went to cities and towns in the North, changing the complexion and culture of the places they left behind and shaping the new places they would call home. Historian Lauranett Lee sheds light on this and related migration patterns of Southern Black people.
Screen capture

/

VPM News Focal Point

Rock band plays lead for public housing redevelopment while residents let their voices be heard

Angie Miles
,
May 2, 2024

With the need for affordable housing growing and public dollars to build or improve not meeting demand, private partners and longtime stakeholders find their way to the planning table. What results is better housing, new friendships and possibly, a blueprint for other cities

Sponsored in part by: The Estate of Mrs. Ann Lee Saunders Brown
Major Sponsor: Patricia Pusey | Supporting Friends: Trish Bernal, Irene Burlock and Joe Holicky, The Chrisman Family Foundation