Racial Justice
Our vision for Rockbridge County is of a community of all races and ethnicities who have equal voice, justice, access to resources, and opportunity. Our community stands together in welcoming, respecting, connecting and promoting friendliness among ALL our residents.
Issue Coordinator:
Tinni Sen
For information on the next virtual meeting, please email the coordinator.
Committed to more diversity?
Check out the Walker Program
Resource Links:
From the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson: It’s not complicated: Rayshard Brooks should be alive.
The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List has 95 titles, one for every year of the existence of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. It has preserved, protected, and fostered a greater understanding of the black experience through its collections, exhibitions, programs, and scholarship.
75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
Concrete items for which to advocate with Virginia General Assembly:
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/06/03/the-criminal-justice-reform-agenda-virginia-democrats-put-off-until-2021/
Official Black Wall Street
Black-Owned Business Directory
More than 1,800 black businesses and counting. Leave reviews, get directions, and more.
Blackout Coalition
Join us June 4
to protest gun violence
WHEN: FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 5PM
WHERE: HOPKINS GREEN, LEXINGTON
WEAR: ¡ORANGE!
BRING: POSTERS, FRIENDS
We will gather for a moment of silence and remembrance and have brief remarks from three local speakers.
Sponsored by Rockbridge NAACP, CARE Rockbridge, and 50 Ways Rockbridge and modeled on the nationwide events run by wearorange.org.