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Seven Black men have been pardoned nearly 70 years after they were executed in 1951 for the alleged rape of a white woman. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam granted the posthumous pardons on Tuesday after meeting with family members of Francis DeSales Grayson, who was 37; Booker T. Millner, 19; Frank Hairston Jr., 19; Howard Lee Hairston, 18; […]
The University of Virginia has disenrolled more than 230 students for not complying with the school’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement. The Virginian-Pilot reports 238 students, including 49 who were enrolled in fall courses, were disenrolled after “receiving multiple reminders via email, text, phone calls, calls to parents that they were out of compliance.” Approximately 96.6 percent of the UVA student body is fully vaccinated […]
The controversial statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia was removed Saturday, roughly four years after the 2017 “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally that ended in the death of a counter-protester and brought national attention to the statue. The removal of the statue took about a day, as a crew prepared its […]
On Friday, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, announced it would remove the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park. As announced in a press release, the bronze statues of Robert E. Lee and Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson will be removed on Saturday. Temporary fencing has already been erected around the statues, and there […]
Pharrell is expanding the education arm of his nonprofit, Yellow, to include a handful of private schools aimed at serving low-income students in his hometown of Virginia. He’s opening the first school in Norfolk, Virginia’s Ghent neighborhood, close to his Virginia Beach hometown. “If the system is fixed and unfair, then it needs to be broken,” Williams […]
Charges against a Black driver who a Virginia State Police trooper removed from her car back in March have been dropped, as it was determined the trooper had no legal merit to detain her. Trooper Robert Hindenlang pulled over government employee Juanisha Brooks on March 6 shortly after 2 a.m., as reported by The Washington Post. […]
A particularly special crustacean dodged a death sentence last month. According to Inside Nova, staff at a Virginia Red Lobster decided to spare the life of an unusual-looking lobster that was originally headed to a plate. The employees were reportedly taken aback by the animal’s vibrant, speckled shell, which was unlike anything they’ve ever seen. They then […]
A Virginia sheriff’s deputy shot a Black man 10 times this week in a bizarre turn of events. WRC-TV reports that 32-year-old Isaiah Brown is now in the intensive care unit after being wounded in the face, neck, chest, and pelvic area. His family is also confused as to how this even happened. The incident […]
More than 400 convictions could be thrown out in wake of an investigation by Fairfax County and the FBI into the racially motivated behavior of former officer Jonathan Freitag, Washington Post reports. Freitag, 25, is accused of stealing drugs from the police property room, planting drugs on innocent people, and stopping motorists without legal basis. He […]
Windsor, Virginia Police Chief Rodney Riddle has said no apology is owed to the Black Army officer who had a gun aimed at him during a traffic stop. At a press conference on Wednesday, Riddle told reporters an investigation into the incident was launched just three days after the traffic stop, which happened on Dec. 5, […]
