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Just off the main drag in Farmville, Virginia there’s an unassuming brick building next to a brightly painted tarpaper structure. The unobtrusive sign out front identifies the building at the Ro...

Black Democrats that support school choice legislation are being targeted by their own party, they say they will continue to do so for the well-being of kids because it’s not about their position or the party.

Thousands of students across the nation, and in Uvalde, walked out of school protesting gun violence and the callousness and cowardice of some lawmakers.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares spoke at Liberty University’s convocation Wednesday, talking to students about faith, heroes and following Gods purpose for their lives.

More than four years ago he announced he would not seek a second term in Congress in order to combat alcoholism.

By Marian Wright Edelman As a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’s wildest fantasies were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant — and I would dream that some mighty man of great wealth built us a new school building or that our parents got together and surprised us with this grand new building and we had a big celebration — and I even imagined that a great storm came through and blew down the main building and splattered the shacks to splinters — and...

Seventy years after students at Robert Russa Moton High School went on strike to protest substandard conditions at the school, the museum that occupies the Farmville schoolhouse will hold a special celebration marking the event and raising awareness and funds for its current mission. “Moton Live 2021,” a 10-hour virtual celebration that will be streamed via Facebook and YouTube, will be held on Friday, April 23, and will feature panel discussions, keynote speakers and musical entertai...

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 didnt 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 rem...

More than 160 Confederate symbols and statues were taken down across the US in 2020 - including many that were vandalized and toppled by BLM protesters A total of 168 Confederate symbols were changed or removed from public spaces in 2020, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center  The symbols included statues, placards and names on buildings, public parks and schools  All but one was taken down after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May, sparking nationwide protests At least one w...

160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020