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12 nonprofits receive grants to further talks about race and racism in Hampton Roads Saleen Martin, The Virginian-Pilot © Kristen Zeis / The/Virginian-Pilot Guests listen during the second night of the Unmasking Series put on by The Hampton Roads Community Foundation at Old Donation School in Virginia Beach on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. It’s tough getting your ideas off the ground when your nonprofit started just before a global pandemic. Communities in Power, which started i...

“I’m hopeful that this grant program will spark some collaborations centered around race, racism and the history of racism in South Hampton Roads that wouldn’t have happened before,” said David Bearinger.

Elvatrice Belsches at the Virginia Randolph Museum in Henrico. photo by Brian Palmer Historian Elvatrice Belsches’ 20-year dream to make a documentary about noted educator Virginia E. Randolph is getting an initial boost with a $10,000 grant from Virginia Humanities to support the research and development of a script. “This is a three-fold project,” Ms. Belsches told the Free Press. “It will include a publication, the documentary and an oral history archive....

A new book on history of Esmont, from its earliest beginnings through the industries that made it a thriving area, is now available. Local nonprofit Friends of Esmont teamed up with historian and author Andi Cumbo-Floyd to publish “Esmont, Virginia: A Community Carved from the Earth and Sustained by Story.” The approximately 100-page self-published book is one of the first collections of the history of the area in southern Albemarle County, beginning with the Monacan tribe, and outlin...