Tag: Black History Month

By Wafir Salih | [email protected] On Saturday, the African American Heritage Trail Committee will gather at Founders Park for the unveiling of 11 new signs...

The words of the late civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. resonate with us today as we celebrate Black History Month: “Injustice...

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] This month’s episode of Speak Easy, the Alexandria Times’ podcast, features an interview with genealogist and investigative researcher Char McCargo...

Years since it was first established, we still embrace the opportunity to celebrate Black History Month and the culture, local heroes of the civil...

Three years ago, Alexandria City Council approved a plan to honor the memory of two lynching victims, Joseph McCoy and Benjamin Thomas, by collecting...

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] As part of Black History Month, the city will be hosting events throughout February aimed at educating the community about...

By Allison Hageman | [email protected]  Last summer at the Alexandria vigils for George Floyd, Audrey P. Davis, director of the Alexandria Black History Museum, collected...

It takes more than a month to share the history of Black people who continue to make history daily, and much work is still...

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...

I recently shared my vision for Alexandria City Public Schools with the Alexandria community. It is perhaps fitting that thanks to last week’s snow,...