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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 out of this wreckage rose this magnificent building and all the students were joyous and even the t...

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 entertainment. Gov. Ralph Northam and state Secretary of Education Atif Qarni will appear. Keynote speakers ...

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 ...

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 was stolen and several were vandalized by protesters before being removed 'These racist symbols only ...

160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020