Dear Family, It’s never just one event that sparks a movement. There are many. Suddenly, though, there is that one that is so powerful that we have no choice but to address. We can name those events,...
Since my arrival in 2017, ColorsVA magazine has featured amazing people, visited interesting places and shared history. Our covers have evoked many emotions and have served to draw attention to the diverse...
As a young activist and community organizer, often times I am left with a feeling of inadequacy, or as though I haven’t quite done enough. I am constantly thinking of ways to help my community, as I feel...
Time – 199 years, more than 72,635 days, 1,743,240 hours and 104,594,400 minutes – that’s the time two sisters have spent together helping one another, their families and friends. If you were...
As a professor at a small, liberal arts college, the most important and wonderful thing about what I do is interact with undergraduate students. I have the privilege of getting to know them, talking...
In literature, character is indelibly shaped by setting. This adage revealed itself to be true for Husain Alam, owner and president of Alam Design Group and Family Builders, as he recounted the many environments,...
Dr. T.J. Anderson III, recognized poetry as his calling at an early age. He grew up on the historically black campus of Langston University in Oklahoma, and artists routinely visited the Anderson...
Discussing domestic and sexual violence is difficult. It becomes especially problematic to discuss when considering race, social injustice and distrust of social systems. African-American women experience...
Teaching is the fulfillment of a lifelong passion for Dr. Bernice Cobbs. Cobbs was a married mother of two when she entered Virginia Western Community College as a nontraditional student. Now she holds...
In the opening Note of his book, The Souls of Black Folks, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote, “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the color-line.” There are no truer words. For millennials or people born...
