Tag: black history
A walk through Black history: Updated African American Heritage Trail to...
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...
Finding a new path | An accident that changed Charles Jerome...
By Char McCargo Bah
Landing a track scholarship in the 1960s was almost inevitable for Charles Lyles until an accident ended his dream.
Born in 1945...
Reunion results
Leslie Golden | [email protected]
The Alexandria Library’s first Black Family Reunion was held on April 29. Black families were invited to bring documents and images...
Your Views: Community does care about Douglass Cemetery
To the editor:
There is much recent history that was not mentioned in the article about Douglass Cemetery, “The fight to preserve Douglass Cemetery,”...
The Other Alexandria: Colonel John McKee, from indenture to millionaire
By Char McCargo Bah
John McKee was one of Alexandria’s most successful African Americans. At the time of his death in 1902, he was known...
Alexandria Celebrates Women: A tale of four sisters
By Gayle Converse and Pat Miller
Try to imagine being captured from an overloaded boat on open water and sold to a notorious Alexandria slave...
Black cook fired by T.C. Williams could replace him as high...
By Jim McElhatton
On Valentine’s Day 1962, Alexandria’s school board waded through dozens of proposed names for its new high school that included U.S. presidents,...
Speak Easy features Councilor John Chapman
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Councilor John Chapman joins the Alexandria Times’ podcast, Speak Easy, this month to talk about his involvement in the city’s...
My View | Audrey P. Davis: Say his name
“How shall integrity face oppression? What shall honesty do in the face of deception, decency in the face of insult, self-defense before blows? How...
Filling in the Blanks with Dr. Gregory Hutchings, Ed.D.: Celebrating 100...
The Snowden School and the Hallowell School for Girls, the first public schools for black children in the City of Alexandria, opened 100 years...
