CSIJ 200: Race & Racism in America

A review of the historic singularities and contemporary significance of aspects of Jackson Ward’s legacy.

A guided, virtual tour of the distinct, but easy to overlook sites around Richmond, VA that tells the story of the Black experience throughout history.

Commentary by the Southern Poverty Law Center on the Hidden In Plain Site Virtual Tour

An interactive map that shows area descriptions created by the agents of the federal government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation between 1935 and 1940.

Using the Just City Essays as a model, urban planner and consultant Ebony Walden collaborated with Dr. Meghan Gough from VCU's Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs and urban farmer and activist Duron Chavis, to create a similar collection of 24 essays along with 7 video interviews and an 8-episode podcast series focused on racial equity In Richmond.

The Richmond Transparency and Accountability Project (RTAP) builds safer, healthier communities by disrupting mass incarceration at its source: police policies and procedures. RTAP organizes black and brown people, legal experts, and policy analysts to achieve policing practices that reduce physical, economic, and emotional trauma on the most policed neighborhoods in the city.

A report conducted by the School of Education at VCU and the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State. "Explores the landscape of school segregation in Virginia and lays out a variety of state-level policy recommendations designed to help local divisions better understand and address the role boundaries play in structuring segregation"

Timeline from 1850-present detailing housing events in Richmond.

The Race and Racism at the University of Richmond Project is an interdisciplinary initiative that documents, interrogates, and catalyzes community discussions on the history of race and racism at the university. Focused around student-centered research and community-based learning, this project contributes to broader conversations surrounding the role of the university in the local, regional, and national community.

Rhoades' reporting brings awareness to the racial disparities within this school district, discrimination against minority students within the classroom, and stereotyping of students who come from low-income neighborhoods.

This article examines newspapers, archival collections, interviews, and personal papers to place Richmond, Virginia, at the center of the national debate about public–private revitalization projects.