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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, this is not really answering your question, bc I don't live in Fairfax but I was feeling for you.  Fairfax City has a lot of nice young diverse families, but it also has a conservative old guard and not much of a Black population.
This might be an odd suggestion since you're not a student, but could GMU be a resource for you/your kid?
I was a grad student at GMU and there are a lot of Black organizations there--including for parents. 
GMU was even just nice as an open community resource--my kid liked walking around with me there, going to Starbucks, going to Ike's (a cafeteria--but good, cheap and free (!) for kids 10 and under--you don't need to be a student/have an ID--you can just pay). Plenty of Black students undergrad and grad are usually there as well as community members especially on the weekends--in fact I met my best friend there because my kid went up and talked to her kid and they lived in the faculty/grad housing right near Mason so would go to Ike's regularly. There's often free family/community events on campus.  There's a charge for parking in visitor lots, but you might be within walking distance depending on where you live too.  
If you go, visit the new Wilkins plaza near the Johnson center-- named for the late Roger Wilkins--a Black civil rights activist who was a Mason Professor.  A student led-project re-contextualized the George Mason statue--addressing his history as a slaveowner: https://dei.chss.gmu.edu/about/enslaved-people-of-george-mason. I took my kid to the opening of it and it was really interesting. Just make sure you go when campus is in session--when the semester is done (half of December, all of January) most things are shut down and the campus is empty.

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Thank you for this excellent idea!! I'm excited to check it out. I've also been mulling over grad school so who knows, I may become a student. Thanks again![/quote]

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