Feds float ending tax-exempt status for private universities that have race-based policies
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service have formally proposed revoking tax-exempt status from private educational ...
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Nixing Black hero’s name from Va.-built aircraft carrier is offensive, affront to military members
It’s not just that the administration of President Donald Trump, who’s proved repeatedly that he’s racist, wants to remove the ...
The day Virginia took down Confederate statues, a Black church remembered a lynching victim
On Aug. 28, 1899, hundreds of Black residents of Alexandria, Virginia, gathered at Shiloh Baptist Church after a white mob ...
Va. school board to appeal federal court order to remove Confederate school names
After more than two hours in the second of two closed sessions, the Shenandoah County School Board voted unanimously 6-0 ...
Voting rights anniversary spotlights America’s enduring anti-Black contempt
Civil rights stalwarts, politicians and academics held a requiem for the Voting Rights Act on its 61st anniversary last week, ...
State budget extends Virginia higher education displacement commission funding for two years
Funding approved by Virginia lawmakers in the new state budget paves the way for two more years of work by ...