Culture • Lineage • Legacy
An independent archival and educational project preserving the history, culture, and contributions of American Descendants of Slavery. Through photographs, documents, research, and storytelling, we document the institutions built, innovations created, and cultural traditions sustained across generations, creating a comprehensive record for present and future understanding.
Navy Hill had a school with Black teachers before Richmond had public schools at all. The city put a highway and an arena on top of it. The Coliseum comes down this year — and the corner where the school stood can no longer be found on a map.
A school with Black teachers before Richmond had public schools at all — and a corner that no longer exists.
A monument, a landscape, and a question of memory in Jackson Ward.
A walk through the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia: five generations in one frame, Arthur Ashe in a tracksuit, a journal from 1850.
