Rise of child mortality for Blacks, Native Americans reflects ‘legacy of systemic racism’
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Researchers at VCU and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU are shedding new light on the increasing rate of U.S. child mortality.
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‘We can work on this’: Community members allege racism in Augusta County Schools
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Several community members raised concern at last night’s Augusta County School Board alleging racism in the school system in the 21st Century.
Staunton branch of NAACP responds to reports of racism in local, Virginia schools
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded 115 years ago in response to violence against Black individuals.
Virginia Tech faculty receive summer funding for research to fight racism, inequality
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Nine faculty members at Virginia Tech aim to produce research this summer that will fight racism, expose structural inequality and support vulnerable communities.
The right’s assault on the word ‘woke’ is, of course, dog-whistle racism
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The amazing thing about the anti-woke crusade of the right is how fragile and linguistically cautious it is, compared to the way things were in the “good old days,” whose passing the anti-wokers so deeply lament.
Republicans, pretending to honor MLK’s Dream, deny that racism even exists
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The third Monday of January is celebrated as a national holiday to honor the memory of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When we fix racism, Black Americans can finally live in peace
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When we fix racism those countless lives lost to racist terror will not have been in vain.
Racist homecoming date proposal, explained: ‘Divisive concepts’ rhetoric perpetuates racism
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The local interwebs are close to melting down over a photo featuring an Augusta County high school student’s tasteless, racist to the core homecoming proposal.
Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder to speak on racism, health care equity
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The 2022 Wilder Symposium, “Racism, Health and Accountability,” will be held on Monday, Sept. 19, at the Virginia Commonwealth University Singleton Center for the Performing Arts.
Resolution declaring racism a public health crisis heads to House of Delegates floor
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The House Rules Committee voted 13-5 Friday to send House Resolution 537, which declare racism a public health crisis in the Commonwealth of Virginia, to the floor for a full vote.
