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RICHMOND — With all of the discussion about which statues should come down and go up around the commonwealth, Sen. David Suetterlein, R-Roanoke County, wants a statue of Booker T. Washington to go up in the Virginia State Capitol. Suetterlein is asking the General Assembly to set up a commemorative commission to work toward putting a statue of Washington, one of the most influential Black leaders of his time, in the Old Senate Chamber in the Capitol. “I really believe that Booker T. W...

Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr.s Mother, Made Her Own Contributions to Civil Rights Time 1/15/2021 Anna Malaika Tubbs © Al Pucci—NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images Dr. Martin Luther King with his mother Alberta and his wife, Coretta, smiling and cheerful during a press conference at Harlem Hospital, N.Y., in 1958. On a hot, humid September day, I walked into Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home, a two-story Queen Anne style house on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, enterin...