ACLU of Virginia asks governor to restore voting rights
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The ACLU of Virginia has repeated its call on Gov. Terry McAuliffe to act now to restore the voting rights of hundreds of thousands of Virginians.
Search Results for Jim Crow
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Dr. Abraham Davis, first director of multi-cultural services at EMU, honored for groundbreaking work
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Dr. Abraham Davis Jr. began a late November chapel service held in his honor at Eastern Mennonite University with a few re-written stanzas of a favorite hymn.
How low can Lew Rockwell go?
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Hans Hermann Hoppe and Lew Rockwell — the gray eminences of the paleo-libertarian world — cry out “But what about the rooaaads?”
Historic marker memorializes Montgomery Hall Park history
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The important history of Montgomery Hall Park will be permanently memorialized on Friday November 20 at 1 p.m. when a Virginia Department of Historic Resources Historical Highway Marker will be unveiled at the park entrance.
Killing the Mockingbird: Go Set a Watchman rewrites the heroic Atticus Finch
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The Atticus Finch who stood on the right side of justice and history in To Kill a Mockingbird is also the Atticus Finch in Go Set a Watchman who reveals himself as a segregationist, reactionary extremist, a eugenicist. You almost want to wish that the lost manuscript from Harper Lee had never been found. I say almost, because I think it’s better for the telling of To Kill a Mockingbird that it was found, in several ways.
The flag is down: The war is finally over
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For 150 years, we continued to fight the war. The South will rise again, indeed, was the cry, as we debated what had happened and what it all meant.
ACLU warns Republican Party of Virginia not to impose poll tax for presidential nomination
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia sent a letter to Republican Party of Virginia Chair John Whitbeck urging the party to reject a proposal to charge delegates a fee to vote in a convention to nominate a presidential candidate in 2016.
Governor McAuliffe implements ACLU recommendation to remove modern day poll tax
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Following requests from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia to Governor McAuliffe and former Governor McDonnell, today the McAuliffe administration announced the removal of the requirement that individuals with a felony conviction pay their fees, fines, and restitution costs before becoming eligible to have their voting rights restored.
Tea Party in Baltimore and Ferguson?
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As Americans we get it when folks in other countries have riots for freedom. After all, high school history class thought us about the Boston Massacre, the British response to riotous Bostonians, unhappy with London’s unpopular rule.
The need for a truth and reconciliation process
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The killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have sparked a national outcry to end the epidemic of police brutality against black men. I believe our greatest hope lies in creating a truth and reconciliation process.
