Norfolk State University President Javaune Adams-Gaston frequently makes the drive from Norfolk to Richmond. Along the way, she sees cotton fields where, generations back, enslaved people worked the land. “Something physically happens to me when I pass those cotton fields,” she said during a speech at Christopher Newport University Thursday. “I feel the ancestors and the pain they had to .
Christopher Newport University (CNU) will cap off a weeklong celebration of Dr. martin Luther King's legacy with a keynote address from the president of Norfolk State University.