Abraham Skipwith News Today

Morehead State Public Radio will offer a variety of programming to celebrate Black History Month in February 2023.

Jackson Ward was famously known as the “Harlem of the South” or “Black Wall Street” decades after Skipwith’s death, as Black businesses and culture thrived. But like the history of Jackson Ward, Skipwith’s cottage in its original form was destroyed by highway construction.

A historical preservation effort in Richmond got a major boost this week: a $1.5 million dollar grant from the Mellon Foundation. The grant is part of the Monument Project, a $25 million national effort to re-imagine America’s commemorative landscape.