Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Friends of Buckingham Virginia

Advocacy group calls for enslaved builders of Charlottesville to be honored

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 6, 2021 | Racial Social Justice

There is an Elephant in the civic living room of Charlottesville Virginia, says Honor-Slave-Block Advocacy Group. This is article is written by Freeman Allan, HSB/Slave Museum Secretary; Author; Researcher; Iconologist; Social Justice Activist This month marks twenty...

Union Hill makes history—again

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 6, 2021 | Environmental Justice

It’s been a busy several years in usually quiet Buckingham County. In Virginia’s rural and mostly Black community of Union Hill, the people who—not so long ago—staved off a massive natural gas pipeline’s polluting compressor station proposed on the same land their...

Community advocacy group applauds House of Delegates for passing gold mining legislation, calls for Senate to do the same

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 5, 2021 | Gold Mining

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2021 Buckingham, VA – Friends of Buckingham, a community advocacy group known for its work to protect Buckingham County and the community of Union Hill from the now-canceled Atlantic Coast pipeline, applauds the passing of...