In the video, Elijah McClain can be seen sobbing as he repeatedly tells officers, “I’m just different.” Samara McClain said her brother was a massage therapist who planned to go to college.
Gov. Ralph Northam recently proposed making Juneteenth, a celebration of the liberation of the last American slaves, an official paid state holiday in Virginia. Northam declared that starting this June 19, all executive branch workers will have the day off with pay. The history of Juneteenth, while well-known in Black communities, has not been celebrated...
Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that he will propose legislation to designate Juneteenth, which celebrates the day that all slaves in the U.S were freed, as a paid state holiday in Virginia. Northam said that in the past the state has recognized Juneteenth with an annual written proclamation. “That’s nice,” he said, “but we need...
Protests and rallies across the country erupted, seemingly overnight, when the video of police killing George Floyd went viral. But the demonstrations against racial injustice are not conjured out of thin air. It took people in communities throughout Virginia, some for the very first time, to organize their fellow citizens. Below we profile three people...
A racist congressman from Virginia tried to stop the Civil Rights Act, but 56 years later his amendment got more legal protections for LGBTQ Americans. In a landmark decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law protects LGBTQ people from workplace discrimination. The ruling has been a long time coming in the fight for...
