Dr. Shawn Utsey, Chair of African American Studies a Virginia Commonwealth University and documentary filmmaker, presents a free showing of his film Meet Me in the Bottom: the Struggle to Reclaim Richmond’s African Burial Ground on Thursday, October 29, at 7PM at the East District Family Resource Center (2405 Jefferson Avenue). Free and open to [...]
Peep This!, a series of short documentaries produced by East End youth in conjunction with the East District Family Resource Center and the VCU Department of African American Studies, will premiere this Sunday @2PM at the Byrd Theatre.
Building on the success of the fall series, the Family Resource Center will be offering a Spring 2009 Community Course on African American Studies from 7-9PM on Wednesday evenings at the FRC (2405 Jefferson Avenue).
The current issue of The Defender has info about a series of lectures on Black history, culture and related issues being presented at the Family Resource Center as a collaboration between VCU’s Department of African American Studies, Richmond’s Slave Trail Commission, the Family Resource Center, the Elegba Folklore Society and the VCU College of Humanities [...]
The Virginia Commonwealth University Department of African American Studies, in collaboration with the Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission and Elegba Folklore Society, is inviting all African Americans, 90-years of age and above, who were born and raised in Richmond and the surrounding area, to participate in the Richmond African American Oral History Project.
