Exploring Black Neighborhoods and RVA as a “Chocolate City”

As a part of our Introduction to Africana Studies unit: Blackness Embodied and Dispersed: Black Places, Spaces, and Organizations, we invite LaToya Gray-Sparks, community outreach coordinator at the Department of Historic Resources and Shekinah Mitchell, director of neighborhood engagemen at Bon Secours, to present and discuss Black neighborhoods and space(s) within Richmond. Much of the academic and public discourse about Black neighborhoods surrounds the structural and systemic forces that erode Black neighborhoods. However, this discussion will also center the joy and beauty of these spaces (in the past and present) as well as the future and possibilities of black neighborhoods.

A Q&A from students and attendees will follow. 

Sponsored by the Africana Studies Program and the School of Arts & Sciences.