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Virginia scholarship aiding those impacted by Massive Resistance and their descendants gets record funding

A record $2.5 million in funds was given to the program this year.

Shakeup at Virginia's Massive Resistance-linked scholarship fund concerns advocates

State panel announces sculptor of Barbara Johns statue for U.S. Capitol

Sculptor Steven Weitzman s works include a bronze of Frederick Douglass for the U.S. Capitol.

The way this Virginia Civil Rights icon will soon be honored in the U.S. Capitol

For Joan Johns Cobbs and her brothers, Wednesday morning marked a big step forward in making a larger-than-life tribute to their sister a reality.

The way this Virginia Civil Rights icon will soon be honored in the U.S. Captiol

For Joan Johns Cobbs and her brothers, Wednesday morning marked a big step forward in making a larger-than-life tribute to their sister a reality.

How the Transcontinental railroad forever changed the US

It spread Anglo-European culture across the nation and caused trade to flourish, but the story of the Chinese labourers who built the track has largely been forgotten.

Barbara Rose Johns Powell – Encyclopedia Virginia

At least 160 Confederate symbols came down in 2020, SPLC says

At least 160 Confederate symbols came down in 2020, SPLC says The Associated Press © Steve Helber Image: J.E.B. Stuart statue (Steve Helber / AP file) When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee. The Lee statue, which represented the state of Virginia as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol for 111 years, had been removed just weeks before one of at least 160 public Confederate symbols taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020, according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press ahead of releasing it.

At least 160 Confederate symbols taken down or moved in 2020, SPLC says

SPLC: At least 160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020