
McEachin launches annual Black History Month Essay Contest
Congressman A. Donald McEachin has announced the launch of his annual Black History Month Essay Contest.

Congressman A. Donald McEachin has announced the launch of his annual Black History Month Essay Contest.

If you look at how polls and politics are shaping up, it is shamefully obvious that Republicans, in general, simply do not represent what most Americans say they want.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Futures Fund recently awarded a $200,000 grant to the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection to expand the promotion of Indigenous Australian art and culture.

After a virtual event last year, the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention returned in-person Jan. 7-12.

A World War II Service Honor Board that features Bridgewater College men and women who served in WWII is among those selected for Virginia’s Top 10 Endangered Artifacts program for 2021.

The Martin Luther King Jr. that most of us know gave a speech about having a dream, then was assassinated in Memphis. There were actually five years in between the two, and what he did during that time needs to be remembered as much as his dream, probably more.

A new statewide Commonwealth Poll finds that 30 percent of Virginians viewed the economy as the most important issue behind their vote in the statewide November election.

The final press release from the Office of Gov. Ralph Northam touted a noble goal achieved by the Democrat in his four years in office: the restoration of civil rights to more than 126,000 individuals who completed their sentences and fully paid their debts to society.

Mitch McConnell promises to make the voices of millions of Americans he says would be silenced by voting rights reforms heard, which sounds like he’s threatening another insurrection.

We all witnessed as 2021 evolved into a year of unexpected turmoil starting with a deadly insurrection on our nation’s capital.
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