Truth Be Told: Virginia
Site-specific short stories from your Black neighbors.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
ERT: But, it doesn't hurt
https://www.newbyfoundation.org/tower-garden-project
https://elizabethrivertrail.org/
https://www.nps.gov/locations/chesapeakebaywatershed/index.htm
https://virginiahumanities.org/
ERT: Knot So Simple
https://nauticus.org/sail-nauticus/youth-programs/sail-nauticus-academy/
https://elizabethrivertrail.org/
https://www.nps.gov/locations/chesapeakebaywatershed/index.htm
https://virginiahumanities.org/
ERT: Boom Box Bike Ride
https://www.freshtopiava.com/
https://elizabethrivertrail.org/
https://www.nps.gov/locations/chesapeakebaywatershed/index.htm
https://virginiahumanities.org/
A quick word
ERT: Six Dollar Dream
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https://elizabethrivertr…
NN: The Yogis on Warwick
From heartbreak and injury to healing and empowerment, Sean and Rylan’s gym is more than a fitness center–it’s a space for rebuilding lives and restoring community in Newport News.
https://www.bgr8fit…
NN: (Take me to) The Bridge on 16th St.
When a bridge symbolizing division and connection was set for demolition, Dr. Price and People for People came together to repair it–literally and metaphorically–showing what’s possible when a commun…
NN: The Frat House in Windsor Great Park
Raised by his Grandmother, Father, and his father’s football team, Tommy Reamon, Jr. walks in his father’s footsteps as a NFL player. Filled with pride for his city, he started the brand City on My C…
NN: Voice of Reason in the Court House
Angela Reason’s photo is the only one of its kind on a wall of history—she’s a mom and the first Black, female Clerk of Court in Newport News. With compassion and conviction, she uses her role to wit…
NN: The Linebacker at CNU
What happens when a sidelined athlete takes a stand? In 2019, Kelo traded his football gear for activism, rallying his university to recognize MLK Day. Hear how he tackled systemic indifference and s…
NN: The Ivey Leagues in Christopher Shores
Imagine a high school education so transformative that it fuels a lifelong mission for change. Joni Ivey reflects on the final days of her historic Black high school, the fight for integration, and h…
Ptown: The Hard Times on Afton
Toney owns Hard Times Skate Shop, one of a handful of Black owned skate shops in the country. When the city moves to take away the skate park in the city, he fights for both his community and his bus…
Ptown: The Cheerleader in IC Norcom
From chickens to cheerleading, Tamara finds her way out of the country and into Churchland. Her love of I.C. Norcom continues in her work on the Portsmouth School Board.
Ptown: The Stooges on Broadway
Mrs. Sharlene experienced a poverty of wealth and of love in her early years. Despite it all, she found a way to raise her daughter differently, without ever forgetting where she came from.
Ptown: The Frat Brutha in Churchland
Despite being STRONGLY encouraged to find a home elsewhere, Speaker Don Scott finds a community that embraces all of him.
Ptown: The Bootlegger on Dunkirk
When Suzette’s grandfather falls ill, she get’s curious about what better care could look like. Instead of continuing the family bootlegging business, she pursues a career in nursing.
Ptown: The Oddball on Owens
Tyiquan is a skater kid who loses his father to gun violence. After attending culinary school in Virginia Beach, he moves his family back to Portsmouth. He is currently a chef in an upscale restauran…
Norfolk: The Visionary in Public Housing
When teens are told NOT to do drugs, they should be given something TO DO. Jackie Baker saw that gap and filled it using grant money to create a pizzeria, a cookie company, a candy store, and a perfo…
Norfolk: The Mini-Mogels in Robert's Park
When pizza delivery services won’t deliver into their neighborhood, a boy joins a group of teenagers to form their own pizza delivery service with the slogan, “It’s fresh, it’s good, it’s from the ho…
Norfolk: The Baby in Berkley
A young boy in Berkeley is forced to reconcile the love that he had from his community vs. the love he could have had from his Mother, if Norfolk could have loved her for who she was.