“You’re One of Us Now”: Buying My First Gun & Becoming “American”
Darnell Lamont Walker writes, “Buying my first gun felt like a collision of identity, fear, and history. Guns had always been distant, abstract symbols of something that didn’t belong to me, but rather to others — their way of navigating the world, not mine.”
The partners of Charlottesville Inclusive Media were commended by the Virginia House of Delegates
Equity in local media matters. This spring, Charlottesville Inclusive Media, the partnership between Vinegar Hill Magazine, In My Humble Opinion and Charlottesville Tomorrow, to grow a more diverse news media ecosystem — from who owns and produces that media to whom it was made for — was formally commended by the Virginia House of Delegates. […]
Her downtown art exhibit was vandalized. Here’s why she’s keeping the damage
Photographer Kori Price says that we, as a society, are capable of healing while acknowledging harms of the past and present.
How one family owned and ran the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — for generations
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his family’s land, and the remarkable ancestors who were determined that their legacy would be equality.
Learn more about the Albemarle County farm at Buck Island with Philip Cobbs
Cobbs will present his work to uncover his family’s history on April 23 at the Northside Library on Rio Road.
It was once his family’s farm — the largest Black-owned farm in Albemarle County — but now we all own part of it
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his birthplace, and why we should all know its history.
Marian Dixon: A Story of Resilience and Hope in the Face of Grief
Read the story on the Vinegar Hill Magazine website.
Telling our stories at Soul of Cville
Charlottesville Inclusive Media will be featured at the Soul of Cville 2023 festival at IX Park.
Listen: Why this photographer wants communities in Charlottesville to say, ‘No, we are not oppressed’
On the In My Humble Opinion podcast, Marley Nichelle says they want Black communities in Charlottesville to feel like they can thrive.
Watch: Charlottesville Inclusive Media tells media colleagues at a national conference why it’s so important to include more people in the news
The First Person Charlottesville project was featured at the 2023 Collaborative Journalism Summit in Washington, D.C. in June.