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Virginia Passes Law Requiring Universities to Create Scholarships for Descendants of Slaves Republican Lawmakers sit in Congress. Image: Twitter/@realdailywire Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed a new bill into law that requires five local colleges to take accountability for their ties to slavery. On Thursday, a new bill was passed that will require five public universities in Virginia to own up to their schools scarred history of enslaved workers, WUSA reports. In an effort to “empower fam...

Governor signs remaining bills from 2021 Special Session Pat Thomas © Provided by Roanoke-Lynchburg WDBJ-TV WDBJ RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ/Governor’s Office Release) - Governor Ralph Northam took action Wednesday on several pieces of legislation, concluding his review of bills passed by the General Assembly during the 2021 special session. In all, Governor Northam took action on 552 bills and did not veto any legislation from the 2021 special session. “Throughout this session, ...

Because each of these schools was in existence prior to 1865, the year the Civil War ended, the assumption is that they all benefitted from black slavery in some way, shape or form. Consequently, they all need to now give black people free money as “reparations.” Should the bill be signed into law, it would take effect starting in the 2022-23 academic year. It will go to the Democrat-controlled Senate next and if it passes there it will head to the desk of Gov. Ralph “Blackface” Northam...

UpdatedTue, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:52 pm ET Reply Members of Students Act Against White Supremacy speak on the campus of the University of Virginia during an event marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right rally. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) RICHMOND, VA — Five public colleges in Virginia with ties to slavery would be required to pay reparations under legislation that passed last week in the Virginia House of Delegates. According to the bill, HB 1980, which passed the House 61-39...

“HB 1980 is a small but important step to acknowledge and address that the foundational success of five universities was based on enslaved labor,” Del. David A. Reid (D-Loudoun) said.

Va. House votes to force public colleges to reckon with ties to slavery, create scholarships or other programs Nick Anderson © Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post People wearing masks walk across the Lawn at the University of Virginia on Sept. 7, 2020 Five public colleges and universities in Virginia would be required to detail as much as possible their ties to enslaved Black individuals who worked on their grounds and to establish scholarships or economic development progr...

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