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It feels like a lifetime ago, but just last year in August 2019, Douglas Jackson was named Arts and Culture coordinator for Roanoke, Virginia. In that role he was to oversee the city’s thriving public arts projects as well as funding for the city’s nonprofit organizations — from the symphony and live theater to science, transportation and art museums, and a variety of popular cultural festivals. Eight months into the job, though, he like the rest of the country was confronted by the viruses of COVID-19 and racial injustice. BUZZ creator Michael Hemphill invited Douglas by Zoom inside the hive to learn more about how arts and culture nonprofits are responding o these crises.