2025 Elder Stories Collection

The RVA Black Elders Telling Our Stories Project 2025 collection, at the Library of Virginia, contains interviews, photographs, summaries, transcripts, and other documentation of four African American community leaders in Chesterfield and Powhatan Counties, Virginia, and Richmond: Charles Barker, Myla Burgess, Jeanette Lesine, and Dr. Jacqueline McDonnough. 

The collection also includes summaries and reflections by high school students who participated in the interviews, and photographs of a community celebration of the project.