“We have long felt that it was important for young people, really across the board, but especially for Black people to be able to find not just affirming representations of themselves in literature, but also really to just up their broad historical literacy about the Black experience in the United States.”

N. D. B. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History, on his family’s YouTube series, Storytime with Dr. Connolly.

Staunton News Leader, August 3, 2020