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Alexandria News
Alexandria Marks Restoration of Freedom House, Once Center of the Slave Trade
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Mayor Aliya Gaskins led a ribbon-cutting ceremony today at the Freedom House Museum—once the headquarters of the Franklin…
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Alexandria News
State Historic Marker Dedicated to Honor Legacy of Alexandria’s Colored Rosemont Neighborhood
By Lucelle O’Flaherty ALEXANDRIA, VA – The City of Alexandria’s Office of Historic Alexandria (OHA), alongside community members and descendants,…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
Hundreds Gather in Alexandria, Virginia for Historic 250th Anniversary of Fairfax Resolves
ALEXANDRIA, VA – It was July 18, 1774. A group of Virginia colonists penned a document challenging British authority and inspiring…
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Memories and Musings
Memories and Musings – On Bright Ideas
Alexandria, VA – Mary Wadland commented in the December Zebra’s Publisher’s Notes, “Alexandria Is a Magical Place Indeed.” She was…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
PHOTOS: Folks Flocked to the Alexandria Cider Festival to Taste and Learn
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Alexandria’s Cider Festival at The Lloyd House, 220 North Washington Street, on Saturday, November 18, was picture…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
ALEXANDRIA: Increasing Access to African American Archives
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Alexandria Black History Museum, part of the Office of Historic Alexandria, is the proud recipient of…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
Join a Committee to Claim Alexandria’s Equal Justice Initiative Monument
By Elizabeth Moscoso ALEXANDRIA,VA- Alexandria has begun the process to claim its Equal Justice Initiative monument in solemn recognition of…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
Join a Committee to Claim Alexandria’s Equal Justice Initiative Monument
Alexandria, VA – Alexandria has begun the process to claim its Equal Justice Initiative monument in solemn recognition of its…
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Community News Alexandria Virginia
Photos: A Candlelight Vigil at Contrabands & Freedmen Cemetery Memorial
ALEXANDRIA,VA- What is the price of freedom? For more than 1,700 former enslaved African Americans buried in Alexandria, it meant…
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Public Safety
Photos: Alexandria’s Friendship Firehouse Festival
Alexandria, VA – If you or your kids love firetrucks, the Friendship Firehouse Festival was something else! In fact, the…
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