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Ora Brown Stokes and the Richmond Neighborhood Association

Ora Brown Stokes founded and was the driving force behind the Richmond Neighborhood Association (RNA), an organization which has received little attention despite its centrality to social welfare work among Richmond’s African Americans between 1912 and 1924, particularly among children and young women.

Lehman, Angela

Angela Lehman received a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001 and a Master of Arts in history from VCU in 2023. Between 2001 and 2013, she was a freelance journalist, receiving a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship to attend the Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and…

Lessons From the Real Me – Willnette Cunningham

This remembrance is excerpted from a forthcoming book by Willnette Cunningham being prepared in collaboration with Shruti Sathish, editor. Ms. Cunningham is an AIDS survivor and HIV Awareness Activist.

Sathish, Shruti

Shruti Sathish graduated from the University of Richmond in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and minors in Health Studies and Mathematics. She is is passionate about the role of storytelling in creating social change, and since 2021 has been working with HIV awareness activist Willnette Cunningham to write Cunningham’s…

Cunningham, Willnette

Willnette Cunningham is a retired postal worker, an AIDS survivor and HIV awareness activist. She has worked for more than 15 years to raise awareness of this infection and disease, to educate on transmission and progression if not taken seriously, and to advocate for prevention of spreading of this disease. Cunningham sums up her work…

History of the Veterans Affairs Caregiver Support Program

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is charged with fulfilling the nation’s promise to care for those who have served in our nation’s military, and for their families, caregivers, and survivors. In fulfillment of one aspect of that promise, the Department has developed and administers a program of caregiver support for caregivers of eligible veterans. The program’s mission is “to promote the health and well-being of family caregivers who care for our Nation’s Veterans, through education, resources, support, and services.” This article presents a history of the programs origins and expansion through 2023.

Precarious Learners: Race, Status and the Making of Virgin Islands Education from 1917-1970

When the United States purchased the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) from Denmark in 1917, the change in the islands’ political status profoundly impacted the educational options afforded to those residing in the territory. Being new subjects of a U.S. empire primarily concerned with preventing enemy expansion in the Caribbean basin both improved and complicated Virgin Islanders’ access to comprehensive education. For those residing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, American citizenship both exposed and exacerbated the precarious conditions of learning and belonging in a U.S. territory. Warped by a history of racialized domination and economic deprivation, education for Black Virgin Islanders has long been fraught by the conditions of precarious citizenship.

Samuel, Jessica S., Ph. D.

Jessica S. Samuel, Ph. D. is an educator, interdisciplinary scholar and decolonial activist whose work focuses on race, education, colonialism and the environment, including where they all might converge, in the United States and Caribbean. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Social Science Research Council, and…

World War II and the Social Work Profession: The Veterans Administration Response to Crisis

With the entry of the United States into World War II and extending throughout the 1940s, there developed a tremendous need for medical and psychiatric social workers. A crisis existed within the profession to which the Veterans Administration responded. The VA became the largest employer of social workers in the nation.