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Gov. Ralph Northam is committing to repealing racially discriminatory language in the Virginia code, which, yeah, it’s hard to report on that without mentioning the blackface scandal.
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Local and national news media have given broad coverage of the events last week commemorating the first African enslaved people being brought to the Virginia colony in 1619.
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Gov. Ralph Northam today signed Executive Order Thirty-Two, establishing the Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law.
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As you read this column the Virginia General Assembly will be nearing its adjournment sine die for the 400th year of its existence, having first met in the church on Jamestowne Island in 1619.
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The Waynesboro Public Library will host a program on the History of the Negro Baseball Leagues on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 11 a.m.
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The ACLU of Virginia is calling on Gov. Ralph Northam to champion passage of an amendment to the Virginia constitution that would guarantee the right to vote for all citizens over 18.
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BackStory, an American history podcast produced by Virginia Humanities, releases “The Faces of Racism: A History of Blackface and Minstrelsy in American Culture.”
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Virginia’s Democratic congressional delegation released the following statement on the status of Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and Attorney General Mark Herring.
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Featured events, exhibits, classes and programs at the Waynesboro Public Library in February.
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You don’t get out of the trailer park just giving up. It would be years before I’d realize that politics wasn’t for me.
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