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@8news covered the City's recent selection of @team_henry to build the Shockoe Institute! We're excited about this partnership, the progress we've made, and everything we'll accomplish together.
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We are thrilled that the City of Richmond has selected Team Henry to build the Shockoe Institute!

Team Henry is led by Devon Henry, an expert in historic revitalizations with an impressive and diverse national portfolio. They will bring the kind of

This second Martin Luther King, Jr. quote from April of 1967 speaks directly to the Shockoe Institute's commitment to using our shared history to inform our present circumstances.

You can learn more about how the Shockoe Institute seeks to fulfill

This MLK Day, the Shockoe Institute is highlighting two quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. that inform our work.

This quote, from 1963, embodies the Institute's view that America’s past and the legacy of enslavement - our shared history - ha

Our 12,000 square foot exhibition space will be a place of learning, reflection, and action. Through innovating programming and interdisciplinary partnerships, the Institute will be a solutions-focused contributor to issues of national importance usi

At the Shockoe Institute, we believe that the story of America is the story of the struggle to expand human freedom.

Opening in Richmond, Virginia's historic Main Street Station next year, we will blend innovative storytelling and evidence-based sch

Our President and CEO, Marland Buckner, has written our latest blog about what our purpose at the Shockoe Institute is. You can read an excerpt below.

"When I describe the Institute’s mission, I am sometimes met with, “My family di