Everyone is Welcome

Interracial Conversations of the Northern Neck gathers on the fourth Tuesday of every month at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 6749 Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway, Heathsville, Virginia 22473, 5:30-7:00 PM. Everyone is welcome!

For inquiries, please contact us at InterracialConversations.NNK15@gmail.com.  Interracial Conversations of the Northern Neck is an all-volunteer organization and we will respond as quickly as possible.

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Join us and let’s discuss the regional issues that matter to all of us.

 

Upcoming Events

  • Northern Neck Hidden History Trail's Alva Jackson interviewed on Bay-FM about Elizabeth Key historical marker dedication

    IRC member Dennis Dalpino has posted Alva's interview on Interracial Conversations' YouTube channel. Here is the link:
     

    https://youtu.be/bAjZcspnKhk?si=vSXJMbtEHIP9Lrfi 

  • "Microaggressions: Naming What We Hear"

    Tuesday, October 27, 2026

    You are cordially invited to join us on Tuesday, October 27, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM at Mount Olive Baptist Church for an interactive discussion focused on learning about and developing personal response strategies to “microaggression.”

    Many of us who participate in Interracial Conversations witnessed Jim Crow first-hand. Racism was legal and was expressed in slurs, segregation, and intimidation. Though it is now illegal, that does not mean it has gone away. Rather, we are living in a time when racism is simply quieter, easier to deny, and built into systems.  It shows up most readily as a verbal slight called a "microaggression."

    At Interracial Conversations' October 27 meeting, longtime IRC participants Vashti Jones and Tom Coye will lead the discussion that will help us identify several microaggressions and learn the coded language in which they are embedded.

    Our time together will help everyone to:

    1. Define a racial microaggression and name its three common forms.

    2. Explain how coded language links everyday remarks to larger systemic patterns.

    3. Use at least one response strategy as a target, a bystander, and as the person who caused harm.

    4. Name one concrete action to take in the next 30 days. 


    Please join us on Tuesday, October 27, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM, at Mt. Olive Baptist Church (6749 Jessie duPont Highway, Burgess).

    "Regulars" and new participants: all are welcome!