A history of the filibuster and why it should be tougher to mount
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The filibuster is still a critical device when used properly in the Senate, but it should be tougher to invoke.
Search Results for Jim Crow
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Ken Plum: Virginia voters can contribute to the state’s progressive future
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The year 2020 has been filled with major ups and downs, but nowhere has the good news been clearer than in the Virginia legislature.
What are civil rights?
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Civil rights are a set of rights afforded to the citizens of a society that protect them from discrimination and repression.
Ken Plum: No more excuses
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Historically Virginia has been a laggard in making it easy and convenient to vote. In fact, most voting laws in the past had the intention of making it difficult for most and impossible for some to vote.
Fight for women’s right to vote represents perseverance, commitment
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One hundred years ago, U.S. women gained a political voice — they were granted the right to vote.
Albemarle County BOS votes to remove Confederate monument outside Courthouse
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In a meeting on Thursday night, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted for the prompt removal of the “At the Ready” monument that sits outside the Albemarle County Courthouse.
The Third Reconstruction
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Virginia and the southern states of the Confederacy lost the Civil War with the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
The pandemic of racism in America
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The rage, desperation, and determination which continue to bring tens of thousands of Americans to the streets in protest against racism and injustice hopefully will be just the beginning.
Augusta County Library exhibit highlights African-American soldiers from WWI
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A “True Sons of Freedom” exhibition highlighting the stories of African-Americans from the state who fought overseas will be on display at the Augusta County Library.
America, you’ve been blacklisted: McCarthyism refashioned for a new age
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For those old enough to have lived through the McCarthy era, there is a whiff of something in the air that reeks of the heightened paranoia, finger-pointing, fear-mongering, totalitarian tactics that were hallmarks of the 1950s.
