Waynesboro: Outreach Book Bike expands library services in the River City
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Waynesboro Public Library announces the roll out of the new Outreach Book Bike, a mobile library initiative to extend library services.
Search Results for Juneteenth
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Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, a UVA law grad, loses cancer battle
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U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas represented her Houston-based district and the fourth largest city in the nation for 29 years.
Offer sheet from UVA Athletics to Tony Bennett sheds light on when extension was offered
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I might be “fringe media,” but a contract extension signed on June 13, and announced that afternoon, with an “effective date of proposed extension” listed as June 1, that all kinda feels like a rush job to me.
ARROW Project’s Sabrina Burress named Mental Health Champion in Virginia
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ARROW Project Executive Director Sabrina Burress was honored today for going above and beyond to serve those in the mental health field.
Expert on misguided administrations, banning teaching of critical race theory
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It’s been two years since the United States designated Juneteenth a federal holiday. But America still has a long way to go to correct racial injustice.
Virginia Tech faculty receive summer funding for research to fight racism, inequality
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Nine faculty members at Virginia Tech aim to produce research this summer that will fight racism, expose structural inequality and support vulnerable communities.
Update: Virginia Board of Education ‘punts’ on history, social science guidelines
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The Virginia Board of Education voted unanimously to not advance controversial draft guidelines for history and social science learning standards,
Critics slam Youngkin-directed effort to whitewash K-12 history, social science teaching
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s war on K-12 public education in Virginia is opening up a new front: aimed, not the least bit surprisingly, at history and the social sciences.
Virginia museum to welcome new citizens as many lose faith in democracy
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On Monday, as some people lose faith in American democracy, new Americans will become citizens at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture’s July 4th Naturalization Ceremony.
Lieutenant governor unveils Virginia historical highway marker for ‘Group Camp 7’
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State representatives today dedicated a historical highway marker issued by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources that recognizes a camping area created for African Americans during the late 1930s.
