The Charlottesville Inclusive Media project was formed by Charlottesville Tomorrow, In My Humble Opinion Radio Show, and Vinegar Hill Magazine with the goal of bringing more inclusive representation to local media.
This effort underpins the inspiring role that the Fourth Estate, the Free Press, must play in representing our people to our government and to one another. The effort to change our systems requires every type of person from every type of background. It’s not a Black thing or a POC thing — it’s an everyone thing. Here’s how you can be part of what we do.
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Darnell Lamont Walker writes, “Buying my first gun felt like a collision of identity, fear, and history. Guns had always been distant, abstract symbols of something that didn’t belong to me, but rather to others — their way of navigating the world, not mine.”
Photographer Kori Price says that we, as a society, are capable of healing while acknowledging harms of the past and present.
Philip Cobbs tells the story of his family’s land, and the remarkable ancestors who were determined that their legacy would be equality.
Equity in local media matters. This spring, Charlottesville Inclusive Media, the partnership between Vinegar Hill Magazine, In My Humble Opinion and Charlottesville Tomorrow, to grow a more diverse news media ecosystem — from who owns and produces that media to whom it was made for — was formally commended by
Cobbs will present his work to uncover his family’s history on April 23 at the Northside Library on Rio Road.
Charlottesville Inclusive Media will be featured at the Soul of Cville 2023 festival at IX Park.
The Charlottesville Inclusive Media project was formed by Charlottesville Tomorrow, In My Humble Opinion Radio Show, and Vinegar Hill Magazine with the goal of bringing more inclusive representation to local media.
