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Staunton desegregated its public parks in the 1960s, but the sense in the local Black community that the city still favors Gypsy Hill Park – which was only open to local Black residents one day a year, “Negro Day,” for decades – is very much alive.
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Two hundred fifty years ago today, July 4, 1776, we were already more than a year into being insurgents, and a long seven years away from actually achieving the independence that we were set to formally declare.
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I was 4 years old the summer of the 1976 bicentennial, and because of that, I don’t remember all that much about it. I remember the fireworks. My hazy memories of the summer of ’76 are: it was an exciting time!
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A shadowy MAGA group is sending out mailers to Black voters in Virginia using imagery from 1960s era civil rights demonstrations urging the voters to vote against the congressional redistricting constitutional amendment.
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The Scott Beardsley appointment was the first realpolitik political test for Abigail Spanberger. The paper she turned in is coming back to her with red ink all over it, and a big fat F at the top.
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Piedmont Virginia Community College will host two programs with Horace Scruggs focused on African American history and culture.
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Today is the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. You remember Jan. 6, 2021, well: as the day Democrats tried to steal the 2020 presidential election.
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A statue of Barbara Johns now stands alongside George Washington representing Virginia the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.
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Staunton voters elected a left-leaning City Council in the 2024 cycle, the message sent being, we need to undo the mistake made in 2020, when voters, shockingly, elected a MAGA majority to lead city government.
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Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that won’t actually dismantle the Department of Education, as he promised on the campaign trail – another promise made, promise not kept by the Trumper.
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