Democrats address voting rights restoration
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The Democratic Natonal Committee and the Virginia Democratic Party discuss the restoration of voting rights for people with felony convictions.
Search Results for Jim Crow
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Ken Plum: Restoring voting rights
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The restoration of civil rights after completing a sentence is automatic in most states and routine in those that have an application process.
ACLU statement on governor’s executive order restoring voting rights
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The ACLU of Virginia applauds Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s executive order restoring the voting rights of 206,000 Virginians convicted of felonies.
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.
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.
