7/22/2020
Here is a round up of news across Virginia.
- Students and teachers anonymously share what it’s like to be ‘Black At’ Richmond-area schools – Richmond Times-Dispatch
- In Chesterfield County, students report teachers using the N-word. In Richmond, principals have referred to Black students as “ghetto,” with absent parents, and Spanish-speaking students say they’ve been forbidden from speaking anything but English. In Hanover, students of color say administrators did nothing after children were called racist slurs.
- With local COVID-19 testing events open to anyone, questions arise about use of resources – Roanoke Times
- Only 22 of the 508 people tested for the coronavirus during an open event last week at the Salem Civic Center tested positive for the disease, and two already knew they were infected.
- Ahead of Thursday’s critical hearing, here’s a primer on the legal fight over the Lee statue – Richmond Times-Dispatch
- In a case filed by a descendant of the family that deeded the property for the monument to the state 130 years ago, Attorney General Mark Herring filed a brief Monday defending the governor’s plans to remove the statue of the Confederate general.
- Confederate soldier statue removed in Leesburg – Associated Press
- Workers have taken down the “Silent Sentinel” statue of a Confederate soldier that has stood outside the Loudoun County courthouse for more than a century. The statue’s fate was decided earlier this month when the county board voted to take it down. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, which donated the statue, asked for its return after a majority of the board signaled support for its removal and as Confederate statues have become a target for vandals and protesters.
- ‘The bedrock of wealth inequality’: Data shows big racial disparities in mortgage loans and homeownership – Virginia Mercury
- Spring Cambric knows what she will be thankful for this Thanksgiving: the home she is buying with help from Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity. The single mother of four plans to move into her two-story, iron-gray house in Northside Richmond this fall.
- Virginia Beach council considers reforming citizen panel’s process for reviewing police complaints – Virginian-Pilot
- This summer, activists in Virginia Beach have been urging the city to create a new panel to review allegations of police misconduct. They want it to have more investigative power than the current citizen’s board tasked with reviewing police internal affairs investigations, increased independence from the city and more authority to ensure the police are held accountable and make changes after findings of misconduct.
- Fairfax County School Board Approves Superintendent’s Proposal to Start School Year Virtually – NBC Washington
- The Fairfax County School Board voted Tuesday night in favor of the superintendent’s recommendation to start the 2020-21 school year 100% online.
- Panelists: Reinterpreting history does not mean changing or erasing it – Daily Progress
- Pushing to include the stories of a wider swath of people and endeavoring to reinterpret historical spaces does not equate to erasing history, a panelist said Monday during a discussion of Albemarle County’s property in Charlottesville’s Court Square.
- Several Hampton Roads restaurants shut down by state over weekend for not following COVID-19 rules – Virginian-Pilot
- Restaurants and places where people normally congregate had been warned, in theory. As COVID-19 cases in Hampton Roads ticked up, Gov. Ralph Northam promised July 14 that enforcement to ensure that precautions were being taken would increase in kind.
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