Black History Found and Forged: Chronicling the East Marshall Street Well Project
Date: Saturday, Feb 1, 2025
Start time: 2:00 p.m.
End time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Black History Museum and Cultural Center, 122 W Leigh St, Richmond, VA 23220
Audience: Free and open to all.
The East Marshall Street Well Project works to address some of the exploitative medical practices perpetrated by Virginia Commonwealth University on Richmond’s Black communities since the 1800s. Representatives from the community and VCU will contextualize this history and discuss efforts to create oral history and memorialization projects that work toward reparative justice.
Sponsor(s): Health Humanities Lab in the Humanities Research Center, The Office of Health Equity
Event contact: Michael L. Dickinson, Ph.D., mldickinson@vcu.edu