Change the narrative
This project highlights underrepresented histories and art of African Americans in the Valley.
What is NENA?
The Northeast Neighborhood Association is a non-profit dedicated to community, culture and history in Harrisonburg Virginia.
How can the visual arts intervene in changing national narratives invested in historical amnesia? The W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Virginia Humanities Foundation support projects that aim for truth, racial healing and transformation, including Harrisonburg’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) project. Led by activists and artists Steven Thomas and Susan Zurbrigg, the Harrisonburg TRHT has organized students, faculty, and community members in retrieving and remembering local histories of African Americans in the Shenandoah Valley.
This program has been funded in part by a grant from Virginia Humanities