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My View: Lynchings in Alexandria
On any Saturday morning, Alexandria residents and visitors enjoy the famous farmers’ market in front of city hall. They may not realize they are...
Your Views: Remembering Alexandria’s Contrabands
To the editor:
I am writing in response to the Feb. 28 Alexandria Times story “Contrabands in Alexandria” that details the talk given by Black...
Black History Museum’s Audrey Davis discusses “Contrabands” in Alexandria
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Walking past the Mobil gas station on South Washington Street in the 1990s, it would have been difficult to imagine...
Our View: Remembering Samuel Tucker, a great Alexandrian
The year was 1939. Franklin Roosevelt was President of the United States. World War II started in Europe. Baseball great Lou Gehrig retired after...
MLK poster exhibition returns to city hall
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
On this year’s particularly frigid Martin Luther King Jr. Day, city officials, members of the Alexandria Society for the Preservation...
PBS Cancels Mercy Street
By James Cullum
Mercy Street has been cancelled. The second season finale of the Civil War-era drama set in Alexandria aired on March 5, but...
