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“We won’t be dismissed”: Cumberland residents fight to protect environment, historic school

When 77-year-old Muriel Miller Branch got word her former elementary school, Pine Grove School, might be sold because of unpaid taxes, she galvanized her extended family and raised the money …

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A 1619 Project: Finding Virginia’s first Africans

“As a small child, I don’t ever remember learning about 1619 and the forced arrival of Africans in Hampton and Jamestown,” says archaeologist and William & Mary anthropology PhD student …

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Why Historic Alexandria is creating nation’s first domestic slave trade museum

“In this country, there’s no museum to the domestic slave trade,” notes Audrey Davis, director of the Alexandria Black History Museum.  The Franklin & Armfield Office may become the first. …

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Black history matters in Appalachia, too

Pennington Gap native, Ron Carson, attended the one room Lee County Colored Elementary School from 1958 until local schools integrated in 1965. His great-great-grandmother, Rachel Scott, a large landowner and …

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