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"Legacy List with Matt Paxton" connects homeowners, Rebecca Silberman and Brian Kelly, living in a converted schoolhouse, to a greater legacy of the struggle for educational equity in Virginia.
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...
Photo: WINA WASHINGTON, DC (WINA) – Governor Northam announces crews overnight Sunday into Monday morning removed the Robert E. Lee statue from the U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall that the General Assembly decided earlier this year does not properly represent the Commonwealth of Virginia. A citizens advisory committee the General Assembly enabled last winter met over the summer and decided Lee — which has stood there since 1909 — no longer would stand along with George Washington as Virginia’s picks. The legislature approved that removal. Governor Northam in a morning statement said, “...