Changes don’t necessarily mean staff will be laid off.
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The first statue is planned for installation after groundwork is completed in 2025.
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The African American Civil Rights Network nod highlights the museum’s role in the movement.
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The organization's founder, John Boyd Jr., says it might consider a boycott.
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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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Plaintiffs 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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The 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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The reasons they’re upset with Gov. Glenn Youngkin vary — and extend beyond the April 29 protest.
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The 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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Deone 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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New national DAR leader makes diversity a top priority as Virginia chapters welcome descendants of “Forgotten Patriots.”
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An interview with co-author Janice Meck about The Life and Legacy of Enslaved Virginian Emily Winfree.
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Only about 7% of companies with employees are Black-owned.
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COVID-19's effects on health care settings worsened barriers to care for pregnant people of color.
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"Please do not let me leave this earth without justice," Hughes Van Ellis said in 2021, the centennial of the racist violence that destroyed a thriving community once known as Black Wall Street.
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In 2022, 74.6% of white households owned their homes, compared with 45.3% of Black households.
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Ruby Bridges is famous for being among the first to integrate a southern white school, but in Virginia, it happened more than a year earlier.
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Leslie Odom Jr. stars in the revival of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch.
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The government is supposed to provide equal funding to land-grant, state-run historically Black colleges and universities under the Morrill Act of 1890.
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Nine Gilpin Court and Jackson Ward residents gathered over the weekend to learn their DNA history.
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VPM News requested the data on differences in health outcomes by race and income.