Black Women and Health Care in Virginia
Photo credit: Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot/TNS Barbara Jefferson Harris, a leader in the Norfolk Chapter and Virginia Organizing's State Governing Board treasurer, courageo ...
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Letters to the Editor on rural internet access and what it means to be pro-life
Members of our chapters write letters to the editor for their local newspapers every month. It's one of the many ways we raise our voices about the change we want to see in our co ...
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Virginia Health Advocacy Organizations Denounce
Commissioner Greene’s Views on Racism and
Public Health
Advocacy Organizations Call for Strong Support for Workers at VDH Addressing Racial Disparities VIRGINIA – In 2021, Virginia lawmakers passed a resolution recognizing that racism ...
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Letter: Importance of Teaching Cultural Competency in Schools
Governor Youngkin is intensely working to remove “divisive” concepts from Virginia education policy. The concepts in question are cultural competency, understanding of inherent bi ...
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Norfolk Chapter of Virginia Organizing Celebrates Transit Win
Norfolk, Va. — After months of letter writing, a press conference, and meetings with executives of Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) and the Board of Commissioners, ...
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Featured Community Partner | AMMD Pine Grove Project
The AMMD Pine Grove Project is a historic preservation initiative with a mission to “protect, restore, and repurpose the historic Rosenwald Pine Grove Elementary School” located i ...
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400 Years of Racism and Resistance: a Story of Virginia
On October 21, Libero Della Piana of the Alliance for a Just Society, hosted one of our most popular workshops, which teaches parts of the history of Virginia that you probably di ...
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Environmental Justice in the News
Executive Director Brian Johns recently published an op-ed in the Roanoke Times about the difficulty of getting environmental justice legislation passed in the General Assembly. B ...
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A Short History of Resistance to Confederate Monuments
Denise M. Watson of the Virginian-Pilot has published this important retrospective: "The racial reckoning with Confederate monuments dates back more than a century." From the arti ...
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