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Community Listening and Learning Session

Neighbors Together for Equity and Inclusion

28 May, 2021

First Community Listening and First Community Listening and Learning Session - Feb. 4, 2021

The first Connecting Fairfax City for All listening and learning session was held February 4, 2021. City of Fairfax Historic Resources Director Susan Gray presented “Fairfax: Crossroads of Conflict in the American Civil War, 1861-65: How Those Events and Personalities Have Been Memorialized and Interpreted.”

Third Community Listening and Third Community Listening and Learning Session -Feb. 25, 2021

Historian Brent Tarter, author and editor of the Library of Virginia’s Discovering Virginia Biography, presented “The 1902 Virginia Constitution: White Supremacy and Disenfranchisement” on February 25. (Presentation begins at the eight-minute mark.)

Listening and Learning Session Listening and Learning Session 3-11-2021

Jarrod Elwell and Michelle Juma from Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. presented “The History of Now: Racial Equity and Housing in the City of Fairfax."

Listening and Learning Session Listening and Learning Session 3-26-2021

Mark C. Hopson, Ph.D., Director of African and African American Studies, and Associate Professor of Communications at George Mason University presented “Reimagining America: Why All the Protests? Having ‘The Talk’ about Race and Racism." He is joined by Gina Castle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Saint John’s University and author of Talking Black and White: An Intercultural Exploration of 21st Century Racism, Prejudice and Perception. This Fairfax County Public Library presentation was recorded June 17, 2020.

Listening and Learning Sessio Listening and Learning Session 4-8-2021

Fairfax Schools: Racially-Separate to Desegregation to Diversity

Community Listening and Learni Community Listening and Learning Session 4-22-2021

Fairfax City: Our Changing Demographics

Community Listening and Learni Community Listening and Learning Session 5-6-2021

"Understanding Community Perceptions of Confederate Symbols within a Framework of Trauma”

Community Listening and Learni Community Listening and Learning Session

Neighbors Together for Equity and Inclusion

Community Listening and Learni Community Listening and Learning Session

Researching and Making Decisions on Confederate Symbols and Street Names

Listening and Learning Session Listening and Learning Session - June 24, 2021

Commemorating the Civil War: Listening to Community Voices Blake Myers, president, Bull Run Civil War Roundtable Jennifer Loux, program manager, Historical Markers Division, Virginia Department of Historic Resources Marion Cohen, African American historian and living history interpreter