A look at the history of the monuments and racism in Richmond, VA and beyond.  Please don't miss this important conversation with someone who understands broadly the role of our individual perspectives in the history we choose to elevate, but also in the context in which that story is told.  Further, how that shapes how we move forward.  

These conversations are an important part of the change that is always happening as Vince so appropriately reminds us, "in order to form a more perfect union" clearly communicates that change is necessary to get the kind of country we were all promised and our framers aspired to in the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence. 

Show Resources:

https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2017/07/27/complicated-history-the-memorial-to-robert-e-lee-in-richmond/?fbclid=IwAR0x9RKGgNsWhV5hI8odwucoZ6LqA6ioRxZPgpT8eIThDUFaFXqSD5Zt-44

https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2018/01/09/the-1907-monuments-in-the-press/?fbclid=IwAR3euG-D43HFtPTpAv9ntf4gK2XNvvFNc0QfqyVQKYPp-OEUH5dUPmof3G4

https://www.nbc12.com/2020/07/02/new-historical-markers-popping-up-place-confederate-monuments/

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/history-is-illuminating-historical-markers-taken-down-monument-avenue

http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/aan/

https://dsl.richmond.edu/holc/pages/home

https://www.richmond.com/news/local/a-blank-canvas-and-an-opportunity-for-reinvention-what-should-the-new-monument-avenue-look/article_5d8fb149-0a68-5a9e-aba8-9c4c268ed14b.html