Style Weekly covers The “Archives of the New Dominion.” The project aims to collect and preserve the 20th- and 21st-century cultural history of Richmond’s blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals and women’s activists basically everyone but “dead white men,” says Curtis Lyons, head of the special collections and archives at VCU. Adds Lorch, “It’s sad to say that these four groups are woefully underrepresented.”
Lorch is gathering historical documents from such groups as the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which started the nation’s first bilingual business center in 2003.
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