by Kayce White | Jul 6, 2022 | Commerce, Community, Culture
Shop-owner Erin Dougherty has one of those super contagious laughs–the kind that bursts forward in total earnest every time she sees someone she finds delightful pop through the doors of Eleanor’s Norfolk, her feminist and intersectional book and bottle shop...
by Kayce White | Mar 14, 2022 | Community
Housing Crisis After WWI: Norfolk’s Changing Laws & Neighborhoods In 1896, the Supreme Court affirmed the “separate by equal” doctrine could be added to the Constitution, introducing segregation into local laws across the nation. At this...
by Kayce White | Mar 3, 2022 | Community
Don’t miss part 1 and part 2 of this series. You can guess what followed the extreme government divestment of the late 50s and 60s: Worsening schools. Low-paying jobs. Few healthy places to live. Almost no places to recreate. The traumatic conditions spiraled...
by Kayce White | Feb 23, 2022 | Community
Part II: Divesting From Human Happiness At a national level, the story of how Norfolk divested from its public assets tracks a uniquely American journey–the confounding results of a civil rights movement that achieved the goal of integration in 1964. Having to, by...
by Kayce White | Feb 17, 2022 | Community
Hurriedly running errands to prepare for our first big snow a few weeks ago, I sat in the car with my two young sons at a stoplight. My six-year-old described a man he saw waiting near a lone bus stop pole in front of a popular Norfolk shopping plaza from the back...
