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July 2024

Day 16: Rise, Celebrate, and Speak
We step off the bridge, but let us keep striving forward toward what we believe in.
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Day 15: Come Celebrate Liberation Season with Me!
Dr. Anika Prather shares her family's Juneteenth-to-July-4th traditions with us.
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Day 14: Desegregating Lynchburg's Swimming Pools
Bev Cosby, a Moral Compass for Our City: A Tribute from Retired Councilman Randy Nelson
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Day 13: Before You Can Thrive, You Must Survive
And in order to survive, one needs food...
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June 2024

Day 12: Rest Again
Slowing down to ponder what we've read this week
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Day 11: The Work Is Worth It
A reading and meditation on three poems by Lynchburg poet and activist Anne Spencer (1882-1975)
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Day 10: The Placement of Lynchburg's Confederate Monument
In addition to examining the monument’s historical context, we should consider the significance of its physical placement.
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Day 9: The History of Lynchburg's Confederate Monument
I strongly believe that the statue should be removed. To make that case, I want to contextualize Lynchburg’s Confederate Monument
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Day 8: When The History of Slavery Hits You In The Heart
A building contractor comes face to face with Central Virginia's troubling racial past.
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This, Our Passing: White Rock and Old City Cemetery
Day 7: A poem in honor of Councilman Thomas Jefferson Anderson (1853-1921)
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Day 6: Court Street Baptist, Part 3
A "testament to the perseverance, enterprise, and faith of a godly people."
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