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Members of the University of Virginia and local communities are invited to gather at Darden Towe Park Saturday at 2:30 p.m. to honor and reflect on the life and legacy of former U.Va. history professor and civil rights leader Julian Bond.
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His voice, in personal conversation, was what you heard on “Eyes on the Prize.” My mother had asked me what it was like being in a class with Julian Bond, the civil rights pioneer, and this was my first impression.
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You can’t change the history, no matter how much you argue it. There’s a reason Southern politicians started wrapping themselves in the Confederate flag in the 1940s and 1950s, and ran them up official statehouse flagpoles at the height of the civil rights era.
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The Created Equal Film Series is now in its second year at the Virginia Historical Society. It focuses on themes related to civil rights, human rights, and social justice in American history.
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Attorney General Mark R. Herring filed an amicus brief in the marriage equality cases pending before the Supreme Court that highlights Virginia’s unique history in landmark civil rights cases, our specific experience with marriage equality, and an important yet under-examined legal argument that will help the Court recognize the fundamental right to marry at stake in these cases.
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Myrlie Evers-Williams, author, civil rights activist and past chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), will be the keynote speaker for Black History Month at Washington and Lee University.
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The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, today released its first national report assessing the status of state legislation affecting LGBT equality across America.
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Virginia is hardly the leader of the pack in the area of marriage equality, but maybe we can be an interesting bellwether. Just as the state’s votes for Barack Obama for president in 2008 and 2012 broke the Solid South politically, maybe today’s move by Attorney General Herring can ignite a wave of change in the South regarding the last remaining civil rights issue of our time.
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The ACLU of Virginia released on Monday principles addressing mental health reform legislation. The principles are intended to guide legislators in balancing the need for reform with the civil rights of all Virginians.
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The ACLU of Virginia today released its 2014 General Assembly Session policy priorities by hand-delivery to all legislator offices. The organization has prioritized several legislative initiatives that will advance the civil rights and liberties of all Virginians.
