The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation @WM_LemonProject
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Tasting History: How Jolly’s Mill Pond is Teaching Through Recipes, Not Textbooks wydaily.com/latest/local/2…
Williamsburg launches street team pilot to combat homelessness whro.org/local-governme…
'Do something about it.' Civil Rights pioneer remembers her role in history whro.org/arts-culture/2…
Read this interview with Ayanna Williams, Williamsburg City Council's youngest member, first full-time William & Mary student, and first Black woman elected to the council williamsburgwatch.com/p/williamsburg…
Hampton U show features Biggers' arc from student artist to national name whro.org/arts-culture/2…
The Lemon Project mourns the passing of Dylan Pritchett,"The Storyteller" whose profound impact on Williamsburg, Hampton Roads, and beyond will long be felt. A Memorial celebration will be held at St. John's Baptist Church on September 26 at 3:00 pm. whitingsfuneralhome.com/obituary/Dylan…
New Black History Memorials Rising In Virginia, Maryland thenewjournalandguide.com/new-black-hist…
The great American quilt: Using the fabric of people's lives to tell a story whro.org/arts-culture/2…
At Alabama plantation, families of enslavers and enslaved strike a deal washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08…
Check out this update from our friend Jobie Hill's Field School--"Touching the Past at Pharsalia" from Virginia Humanities virginiahumanities.org/2025/08/touchi…
Congratulations to our friends at the National Institute of American History and Democracy on another successful summer of public history! news.wm.edu/2025/08/08/nia…
Bondage and Freedom: An exhibition chronicles free Black Virginians’ centuries-long struggle | Images courtesy Virginia Museum of History & Culture richmondmagazine.com/arts-entertain…
Washington Post Sees Major Exodus of Black Journalists thenewjournalandguide.com/washington-pos…
Negro Baseball Photo Exhibition Opens At Aspire Art Gallery In Norfolk thenewjournalandguide.com/negro-baseball…
With their largest land acquisition, the Rappahannock Indian Tribe is returning to its river wvtf.org/news/2025-08-0…
Henrico unveils plans for $16M trail highlighting Civil War history vpm.org/news/2025-08-0…
Five years of Visionaries for Change being the change whro.org/arts-culture/2…
Check out this article from Smithsonian Magazine by Karin Wulf-- "Why 18th-Century Americans Were Just as Obsessed With Their Genealogy as We Are Today" smithsonianmag.com/history/why-18…
Cecilia 'CeeCee' Tucker, longtime educator and civil rights figure, dies whro.org/education-news…
Check out this Library of Congress blog post "AHHA! Firsts in Black and African American Cartoons and Comics" blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandhe…

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