The Judy Project

Early this month, Elizabeth S. Kostelny, the CEO of Preservation Virginia, the oldest statewide preservation organization in the nation, wrote to share her organization’s support for the Judy Project at Richmond Hill. She wrote in part: I write to lend our support to the Judy Project and its goal to unearth this forgotten history and restore the space for reflection, dialogue, and healing. By envisioning a place that is educational and restorative, the team at…

Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams writes of Richmond Hill and the legacy and future of the dwelling of the enslaved in the July 16, 2022, Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Unearthing Buried Stories: The Exhibit is an effort by Richmond Hill to live into its mission, which is to seek the healing of metropolitan Richmond through hospitality, prayer, racial reconciliation and spiritual development. Black and white people in this country have been harmed in very different ways by a culture of white supremacy, enslavement and the legacies of enslavement – not to mention the ways in which religion has been used to justify oppression and…