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Approximately 4.5 acres of land between Interstate I-95 and Ancarrow’s Landing has been purchased from Norfolk Southern and will go under the James River Park System conservation easement and transferred to the City of Richmond as part of the park.
With “Elegy,” photographer Dawoud Bey captures the essence of sacred Black spaces.
A new slavery museum is a start, but it doesn’t tell the whole story.
1. Alaska’s Coast Two adults on stand up paddle board (SUP) observe hole melted in iceberg on Bear Lake in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska. Image zoom Credit: Getty Images In the midst of the pandemic, Alaska's entire May to September cruise season was cancelled in 2020. That left some 1.3 million travelers unable to board ships to experience thunderously calving glaciers, frolicking humpback whales, lively gold rush towns, and fascinating Alaska Native arts scenes. Touris...
By Ana Edwards and Phil Wilayto For three decades before the emancipation that came with the end of the Civil War, Richmondâs Shockoe Bottom was the epicenter of the U.S. domestic slave trade. Second only in size to the slave-trading district of New Orleans, the Bottomâs more important significance was its role as the fountainhead of that trade, the wholesale district that supplied hundreds of thousands of human beings to the retail markets further South. Because of the massive numbers of enslaved people sent by ship, rail and overland coffles, most African Americans today likely co...