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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CDC Director: Children of Color Will Be Disproportionately Affected
Rebecca Klar of The Hill writes: Children of color will be disproportionately affected by school reopenings amid the coronavirus pandemic if additional resources are not in place ...
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Black Virginians Honored in 20 New Historical Highway Markers
On Juneteenth 2020, Governor Ralph Northam announced the content of "20 new state historical highway markers that address topics of national, state, and regional significance in V ...
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Juneteenth State Holiday!
Image credit: AJ+ YouTube On June 16, 2020 Governor Ralph Northam announced that Juneteenth would be a paid holiday for state employees. He also announced that he would work on le ...
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Stand in Solidarity with TakeAction Minnesota
STATEMENT: TAKEACTION STATEMENT ON JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD May 28, 2020 Kenza Hadj-Moussa The murder of George Floyd is devastating and justice is what we are focu ...
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