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Down Home Family Reunion is 'Bringing the World Home' | Richmond Free Press | Serving the African American Community in Richmond, VA

The 32nd Annual Down Home Family Re- union will bring music, dance, stories, food, shopping and enrichment to Jackson Ward’s Abner Clay Park on Saturday, Aug. 19. Presented by the Elegba Folklore Society, this year’s cultural arts festival highlights “A Celebration of African American Folklife.” ....

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Acquires Massive Photographic Archival of Black History : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Acquires Massive Photographic Archival of Black History : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
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Library acquires archive of Roland L. Freeman, photographer of Black life in Southern U.S.

The Roland L. Freeman Collection is now part of the Southern Folklife Collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library. It will be available for research and consultation later this year. It is a gift from the Kohler Foundation, a family foundation that supports the arts and education. ....

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Festival celebrating African American Folklore returns to Jackson Ward

From a program at a museum, a festival was born in Abner Clay Park and now they are “bringing it back home.” ....

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Weekend Events: Film festival, popup market, live music and more

In addition to the 9/11 events we featured Thursday, which you can find here, there are several other events happening for the weekend. ....

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