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Changes don’t necessarily mean staff will be laid off.
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Nick McNamara / WHRO/The first statue is planned for installation after groundwork is completed in 2025. -
Adrienne Hoar McGibbon/VPM NewsThe African American Civil Rights Network nod highlights the museum’s role in the movement.
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Life in the Heart Land/The organization's founder, John Boyd Jr., says it might consider a boycott.
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Dwight Fenner/Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker on what to do with the debris of Southern sins as we celebrate Juneteenth.
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Google Maps/Screenshot by NPRPlaintiffs in the federal lawsuit filed in Virginia include students who say they don't want to be forced to glorify or represent historical figures who fought to maintain slavery and white supremacy.
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Christopher Tyree, VCIJ/VCIJThe state budget approved May 13 creates a panel to probe the displacement of Black families by public college and university developments and consider possible redress
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Shaban Athuman/VPM NewsThe reasons they’re upset with Gov. Glenn Youngkin vary — and extend beyond the April 29 protest.
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Screen Capture/VPM News Focal PointThe Melungeon Heritage Association met in Hillsborough, NC recently to discuss an upcoming conference exploring their identity. Andrew Harris Jr was an attendee.
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Screen Capture/VPM News Focal PointDeone Allen spoke at length with VPM News Focal Point this week, saying that families have reached their limit and will no longer tolerate their children being mistreated. She is calling for swift and serious consequences for students who subject others to verbal attacks and for the school board as well as the community to take decisive action to remedy the problems.
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Screen Capture/VPM News Focal PointNew national DAR leader makes diversity a top priority as Virginia chapters welcome descendants of “Forgotten Patriots.”
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The path to federal recognition is long and complicated. But it can offer important administrative and financial benefits. It is also an important symbol of acceptance for Indigenous tribes whose existence has been denied by Virginia’s racial integrity laws.
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Language is one way we connect to our family, our culture and our traditions. Across the nation, Indigenous communities are reclaiming their native tongues. In Virginia, three women are working to bring back their ancestral language – Algonquian. Their language revitalization efforts are just beginning but they are weaving together the past and the present to restore their linguistic heritage.
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A Northern Virginia developer has tied a land donation to building two data centers.
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The gap between white and nonwhite voters is growing fastest in places that were stripped of federal civil rights–era voting protections in 2013.
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The institution's new policy is expected to be finalized later this year.
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Public schools have been treading a fine line when it comes to freedom of speech and historic symbols.
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Three years after vowing to beef up measures to keep bad cops from quietly shuffling to new jobs, little has changed.
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The pilot will offer payment assistance and housing counseling.
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Its Richmond headquarters would then be subject to the city’s regular tax rate.
