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Women entering service in World War II, from the archives of the Virginia War Memorial.
Artsline: Virtual Edition || March 1, 2021
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
March is Women’s History Month and RVA’s arts and culture community has created a wonderful line-up of exhibits, performances, and educational programs to enlighten and inspire. Be on the lookout this month for local female artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and historians highlighting the amazing contributions women have made and continue to make in our world today.
Online and at Dominion Energy Center, 600 E Grace St, Richmond, 23219
$10-$82
Beethoven is at the heart of this Richmond Symphony concert, with the majestic Piano Concerto n.1 and the sunny and cheerful Symphony n.4 that in its brightness recalls the symphonies of Haydn, with whom Beethoven had studied a decade before. Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez, First Prize winner of the Anton Rubinstein
Virginia s first Black nanoscience graduate inspires young minds
Richmond Flying Squirrels honor Richmond 34, civil rights trailblazers
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RICHMOND, Va. Ginai Seabron, who once attended Albert Hill Middle School in Richmond, returned last year as a guest speaker. The students were excited to meet a history maker who chose a particular field of science.
In 2018, Seabron became the first black nanoscience graduate in the state of Virginia after completing her four years of study at Virginia Tech. I love questions and I love to answer them, especially when theyâre coming from little growing minds. The students weâre like wait, you sat in this room? And Iâm like yes, I sat in this room with my teachers,â said Seabron.
âMassive Resistanceâ architectâs statue banished
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The statue of Harry Flood Byrd Sr. has stood in Virginiaâs Capitol Square since 1976, a decade after this death. That is a great stain on his career and a great embarrassment. But he was a man of a certain time in a certain era. Sen. Jill Vogel (R-27th/Upperville)
By Zachary Klosko
Capital News Service
RICHMOND â The Virginia General Assembly has voted to remove the statue of former U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr. from Capitol Square, the area around the Virginia statehouse.
House Bill 2208, introduced by Del. Jay Jones (D-Norfolk), instructs the Department of General Services to place the statue in storage until the General Assembly chooses its final location. The bill passed the House in late January on a 63-34 vote, while the Senate approved the measure Tuesday on a 36-3 vote.
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Five years after he was nominated to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is President-elect Biden’s choice to lead the Justice Department as the next attorney general.
Previously, Biden has vowed that the Justice Department under his administration will be “totally independent” of him. He has stated that “the person or persons I pick to run that department are going to be people who are going to have the independent capacity to decide who gets prosecuted and who doesn’t.”
Given Obama’s failed push to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court, and given Biden’s warm relationship with Obama, it is probably no coincidence that Garland was chosen to serve as Biden’s attorney general. Despite claims that Garland will act independently, history suggests that this is unlikely to be the case.