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The mother, wife, entrepreneur, IT professional, animal adoption advocate and strong leader quietly battled cancer over the course of 20 years.

How Norfolk became segregated: the century-long roots of the city’s ‘Dividing Lines’ Sara Gregory and Ryan Murphy, The Virginian-Pilot A mob marched on Norfolk in 1923. A new family had moved onto Corprew Avenue, a “white block” as far as city ordinance was concerned, the northernmost boundary of the well-to-do enclave of Brambleton, which was then on the city’s outskirts. The family moving in considered themselves white, but the armed crowd, which included a sitting...