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Born into a segregated southern world, Rita Wilson had attended local schools that were set apart for African Americans. She later worked as a domestic for white families, which was one of the few jobs available to local African American women.
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Montgomery Hall Park in Staunton is now on the National Register of Historic Places, an official list of the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation.
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The Virginia Association of Museums awarded $18,500 in conservation grants to ten historic and cultural organizations from across the Commonwealth to help in the care of Virginia’s historic and cultural treasures.
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Virginia House Democrats discussed several pieces of legislation to improve the lives and livelihoods of Virginia’s workers at a press conference on Wednesday.
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Charles Dew, Ephraim Williams Professor of American History at Williams College, will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University’s Founders Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation on Jan. 18, at 5 p.m. in Lee Chapel.
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Just when you think things are changing you can be shocked to realize just how much they stay the same.
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We now have the second side to the “both sides” dichotomy of #Charlottesville that President Trump tried to sell us on.
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President Donald Trump is a “master” at confirmation bias – a phenomenon hardwired into the human brain.
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Virginia has more Confederate monuments than any other state in the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Here in Charlottesville, Virginia, I like to point out that the rallies of racists are mostly imported from out of state.
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