Virginia McGee Richards discusses The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway, to be published on April 7, 2026. A photojournalist, attorney, and environmental advocate, Richards documents the remnants of a 300-year-old coastal waterway built and maintained by enslaved people in South Carolina and Georgia. Her work traces both the physical landscape and the hidden history of resistance embedded within it. A 2021 Photojournalism Fellow at Anderson Ranch and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Richards’ Inner Passage project was featured in Smithsonian Magazine in 2022.

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