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Grambling State continues its search for a new football coach, and officials include Doug Williams, Shack Harris on committee

A collection of 10,000 stereotype-defying images documenting Black life in Central Virginia will be on display at UVA.

Louisiana Exemplary Educators receive a certificate of recognition and may be invited to participate in Department advisory boards and task forces. Exemplary Educators are also eligible for consideration in other recognition programs.

Charlottesville removes statue at center of 2017 white nationalist rally The monument of Stonewall Jackson, erected in 1921, is lifted from its pedestal in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Eze Amos/The New York Times. by Hawes Spencer and Michael Levenson CHARLOTTESVILLE (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Four years after a woman was killed and dozens were injured when white nationalists protested the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, workers removed ...

All this crying. this is why i don’t click on stuff. Usually wrong but never in doubt Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again. There will be lawyers. My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year. They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup! Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly. It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops. This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend. ...

National Geographic was ahead of the curve. While it took last summer’s uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd for many media outlets to address bias in their reporting and newsroom culture, the magazine announced its own racial reckoning in 2018. That year it dedicated its April issue to the topic of race, and Susan Goldberg — the first woman to be the magazine’s editor-in-chief — publicly acknowledged the publication’s long history of racism in its coverage of people of...

The state that has tried to stop Black people from voting is shifting in a liberal direction to become a symbol of the new south

Were making our way: how Virginia became the most progressive of the US’s southern states David Smith in Washington © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ryan M Kelly/AFP/Getty Images Having lived in Virginia most of his life, Larry Sabato can remember racially segregated schools and systematic efforts to stop Black people voting. Now 68, he observes a state that has diversified, embraced liberal values and shifted from symbol of the old south to symbol of the new. “I ha...

Julia Rendlemans "Commonwealth" Joseph Rogers portraying James Apostle Fields at Point Comfort, Hampton, Va. August 2019 (Photo: Julia Rendleman for VCIJ) 1/10 400th year anniversary at Martins Brandon Episcopal Church, Disputana, Va. May 2018. (Photo: Julia Rendleman for VCIJ) 2/10 3/10 4/10 5/10 ...