by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 12, 2021 | Environmental Justice
The community of Brown Grove in Hanover County is knitted together by a single ancestor, a freedwoman named Caroline Morris, who helped found the community during the Reconstruction. Now, all these years later, Caroline’s descendants are still battling injustices....
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...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 28, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Events
Join ARTivism Virginia’s SUN SiNG Collective for their sixth and final concert in this series, which was on June 18. The week’s focus was on environmental justice, the fight to protect Union Hill and the Poor People’s Campaign and featured guest speaker Reverend Dr....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 28, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Events
Due to Covid-19 the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington was a Digital Justice Gathering to call for a revolution of values to save the soul and heart of our democracy. The political and economic systems in the U.S. are plagued by the interlocking...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 6, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Events
TYLER HAMMEL/THE DAILY PROGRESS Two supporters talk with Richard H. Allan III (right) following his hearing Thursday at Charlottesville General District Court. An Albemarle County man charged with removing a plaque that marks the spot where enslaved people were...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 29, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
An Expedition led by Senior Fellow, Karen Kasmauski with the International League Of Conservation Photographers. For a stunning photographic essay and story of Union Hill in Buckingham County and also Nelson County please click HERE.