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INSIDE Disturbing news affecting veterans - 3 Grant to target violence in Richmond - 4 Nat Turner, the Va. rebel, revisited - 8 Black Lives Matter, a stress test - 11 & 14

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“Hidden no more”: RVA memorializes ‘painful’ history

The Slave Trail Commission shined bright this week with a ceremony highlighting the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail Development and commemoration of Gabriel’s Rebellion.

Slave Trail Commission chair Del. Delores McQuinn led the program that consisted of a tribute to the life of Gabriel Prosser and a tree dedication ceremony.

Those in attendance included Rep. Bobby Scott, Governor Terry McAuliffe, former Governor Bob McDonnell, Mayor Dwight Jones, Del. Jennifer McClellan, Del. Lamont Bagby, Councilwoman Cynthia Newbill, Richmond Council President Michelle Mosby and a host of other elected officials.

McDonnell, who was instrumental in getting funding secured during his time as governor, shared how important he felt the project was during his governorship.

Pointing out that everyone should live by the golden rule, he stated that the jail site definetly held a meaningful presence.

“This ground is a testament of man's capacity for evil, but today we celebrate transformation of hope and turning this into something positive,” McDonnell said.

Gov. McAuliffe continued the effort for the slave trail and during a trip down civil rights memory lane he said “we will never give up the fight” for equality. He also mentioned a statue of Abraham

Lincoln possibly placed at the future museum sight.

Lumpkin’s Jail was a slave-trading complex located in Shockoe Bottom and operated from the 1830s until the end of the Civil War. It was eventually leased to a Baptist minister who founded the Colver Institute, a school for emancipated blacks, and used the former jail building to hold classes. This school evolved into Virginia Union University.

Virginia Union’s acting president, Dr. Joseph Johnson, was also in attendance and reflected on how “timing is everything.” Johnson told the story of how evil turned to good.

Upon Lumpkin's death, he left the land that housed so many slaves and tore apart families to his formerly enslaved widow.

“For that one moment in his life, [Lumpkin] did the right thing,” Johnson said referencing the land he left to his wife that educated emancipated slaves.

While no time has been determined for the completion of the museum it was decided that SmithGroupJJR, the same architecture, enginerring and planning firm that construcgted the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. will complete the construction and development for the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail museum site.

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Virginia veterans’ claims go unprocessed for years after employee keeps documents STAFF

If you are a veteran who filed a claim with the Virginia Department of Veterans Services (“DVS”) from late 2011 to mid 2015, the DVS is asking that you reach out either via www.ebenefits.va.gov or by visiting one of DVS’s 26 benefits offices in Virginia to check on the status of your claim or benefit.

This comes as DVS announced that a “large number of documents”, including veterans’ claims, were recently discovered in a storage unit belonging to a former DVS employee who worked at the agency’s veterans benefits office at Richmond’s McGuire VA Medical Center (VAMC).

Tina Parlett-Calhoun, director of communications with Virginia DVS, noted that DVS officials retrieved and secured the documents at the agency’s Richmond headquarters, and are now reviewing them to ensure that all affected veterans can be notified and assisted.

Because agency documents were comingled with the unnamed former employee’s personal papers and

possessions, the exact number of claims records affected is not yet known, but all appear to be dated between 2011 and mid-2015. They see to be exclusively from the DVS benefits office at McGuire VAMC. “We are in the process of reviewing documents and determining the status of all claims as quickly as we are able,” said John Newby, commissioner, Virginia DVS. “We are committed to providing additional information to impacted veterans and to the public as we determine the full scope of the situation and how many veterans may be affected.”

The former employee worked at DVS from January 2012 until Aug. 25, 2015 when he was fired.

The Virginia Attorney General has notified the Virginia State Police and requested it begin a criminal investigation.

The DVS sought to draw a line between this crime and the scandals that have plagued the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and McGuire VA Medical Center. Among the problems, published investigative reports over

the last few years indicate that VA supervisors instructed employees to falsify patient wait times at Veterans Affairs’ medical facilities in at least seven states, including Virginia.

Some veterans’s health deteriorated leading to death as they waiting for extremely long appointment times to get care.

“DVS employees are provided space at the McGuire VA Medical Center to assist veterans, but neither the VA nor its McGuire VA Medical Center are involved in this incident,” noted Parlett-Calhoun. “Specifically, no VA personnel were involved with the collection or retention of the discovered documents.”

Virginia Secretary of Veterans and Defense Affairs John Harvey and Commissioner Newby said they identified the need to move from a paper-based system to an electronic claims filing system at the beginning of the administration.

All DVS benefits offices converted to an electronic system by June 2015 making Virginia was the first state to fully automate its veterans’ claims filing process.

Under current practice, DVS noted, all claims are now tracked electronically and manually by senior managers to ensure that no documents are misplaced or lost and that all claims are filed in a timely manner.

“I am deeply concerned about the veterans whose records have been mishandled, and I have directed my team to use all available resources to identify these men and women and ensure that they receive the benefits and care that they are due,” said Harvey.

“At the beginning of this administration, we identified a vulnerability in the Commonwealth’s claims process, and we began implementing a solution to this serious deficiency,” he continued.

“Regrettably, our fears were justified, and the danger we were working so hard to address was already a reality. We stand ready to assist any and all veterans impacted, and we are determined to prevent any similar mishandling of information from happening in the future.”

Registration deadline Del. Jennifer L. McClellan (D-Richmond), chairwoman of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission, is encouraging all Virginians to register and exercise their right to vote in the upcoming General Election on Nov. 8.

“All elections, whether local, state, or federal, are fundamental to the governance of our democracy and the liberties afforded all citizens and are protected by our Constitution,” she noted. “The right to vote is precious and should not be considered frivolously.”

According to the SBE, the deadline to register to vote, or update an existing registration, for the Nov. 8 election is Oct. 17.

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VCU receives nearly $6 million grant to advance youth violence prevention strategies in Richmond The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a nearly $6 million research grant to promote healthy communities and reduce violence rates in Richmond.

The grant resulted from a strong collaboration between community partners and the university.

The university will work closely with members of the Richmond community and local organizations to carry out objectives detailed in the five-year grant.

“We will be working with city residents and community partners to improve our capacity to overcome issues that affect the health of

youth," said co-principal investigator Saba Masho, M.D., DrPh, professor of family medicine at VCU School of Medicine.

Masho will partner on the grant with co-principal investigator Terri Sullivan, Ph.D., professor of psychology at VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

The project continues the work of the Clark-Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development at VCU, which is one of five national centers of excellence for youth violence prevention funded by the CDC. Clark-Hill’s mission is to empower youth, schools and families to promote the healthy, safe and

otherwise positive development of youth from early adolescence through emerging adulthood. The current project builds upon more than 15 years of CDC funding.

In 2014, the rate of homicide among young people in Richmond was nearly four times the national average. Activities funded through the grant will seek to reduce incidences of violence in the city by evaluating the impact of evidencebased violence intervention approaches.

University researchers and community partners will work with residents of three neighborhoods in North, East and South Richmond to identify pre-existing programs in each community and build on the strengths of those programs.

“We are informed by community needs and strengths at every juncture,” said Sullivan. “We will rely on community members to help us understand how we can build on existing protective factors. At the end of the five years, we may

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The project will include continuous assessment of outcomes through community surveys and various forms of surveillance data. If proven effective, the intervention strategies developed during the five-year grant may advance the science and practice of youth violence prevention.

Findings may also inform youth violence prevention strategies in communities beyond Richmond.

“There are so many factors that can cause youth to engage in violence and these behaviors affect the health of entire communities,” said Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones.

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Top four Richmond mayoral candidates,11 city council candidates now endorse a Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park A local civil rights group, Defenders’ Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project, sees hope in the fact that the four leading candidates for the office of Richmond mayor have now endorsed the Community Proposal for a Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park.

Jon Baliles, Jack Berry, Joe Morrissey and Levar Stoney are the mayoral candidates. In addition, 11 candidates for Richmond City Council have endorsed the concept of a nine-acre memorial park that would include the African Burial Ground, the Lumpkin’s Jail site and two blocks east of the CSX railroad tracks. Those council candidates include Charlie Diradour, Kimberly Gray and Rebecca K.W. Keel (2nd District); Dorian Daniels (3rd District); Jeff Thomas and Johnny Walker (4th District); Parker Agelasto, Montigue Magruder and Garrett L. Sawyer (5th District); Donald Moss (6th District); Josh Williams (7th District); and Leon

Benjamin (9th District).

“What this means is that when Mayor Dwight Jones leaves office in January we will have a new mayor supportive of the Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park proposal as well as very likely more support on City Council,” said Ana Edwards, who chairs the Defenders’ Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project. “This is why we are viewing the present mayor’s plan for a memorial at Lumpkin’s Jail as just the first stage in the larger memorial.”

On the national level, the Green Party ticket of Jill Stein for president and Ajamu Baraka for vice president has declared its support. In an email sent Oct. 9 to the Defenders, Baraka wrote: “We fully support the community proposal that represents the best plan to preserve and protect this historic district.”

Baraka had previously expressed his personal support for the proposal Oct. 4 at a press conference at the African Burial Ground.

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A Trump win could tear this nation apart BILL FLETCHER, JR. Alright, team, we are getting close to the finish line: Election Day, Nov. 8. We have witnessed two debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and while I would argue that Clinton won, Trump made enough arguments to reinforce some level of confidence among his supporters.

After having a comfortable lead over her Republican opponent, current poll numbers suggest that Clinton’s lead has almost vanished in key states; reasons why the race has tightened are still up for debate.

There are four presidential candidates on the ballot: Hillary Clinton (Democrat), Donald Trump (Republican), Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party) and Dr. Jill Stein (Green Party). The reality is that the presidential choice comes down to either Clinton or Trump. Johnson has about an 8 percent showing in the polls and Stein about 3 percent.

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Nov. 8. Thus, my first plea is that everyone votes. Each vote, as we saw in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, can be potentially critical.

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majority, or a literal tie. So, even if you find yourself dissatisfied with the presidential choices, there are other races that will make a real-world difference.

The third issue, however, is one that hit me, yet again, in watching the debate. Trump and his supporters are dangerous. It is frightening that a presidential candidate can continue to deliver outright lies and has not been run out of town on a rail. But it is actually more than that.

Leading the birther movement against Obama, threatening to put Muslims under surveillance, proposing a wall along the border with Mexico and an escalation of deportations, allegedly, as a means of cutting crime, tells us that Trump understands nothing about the experiences of those of us of color. Worse, he is quite unprepared, in the face of the history of the U.S., to play with matches in a field of unstable dynamite. Trump isn’t stupid; he knows precisely what he is doing and he knows how he is motivating racists and xenophobes to come out of the closet. Yet, he keeps doing it.

So, it really comes down to this: No matter who is elected, people

of conscience will need to put and keep pressure on the next administration. At the same time, don’t deceive yourself. Ultraright-wing forces will play on Trump’s victory in order to push us further over the edge into a racial dystopia.

Black America went through a racial dystopia after the defeat of Reconstruction and found itself in the hell of Jim Crow.

Asian America went through the persecution of the Chinese and Japanese, the annexation of Hawaii, and a genocidal war against the Filipinos. Latino America went through the seizure of the northern third of Mexico and the later seizure of Puerto Rico, along with the constant demonization of their people and their heritage. Native Americans have faced constant efforts aimed at the violation of their sovereignty, and, indeed, their extermination.

We do not need a president who takes us anywhere close to that world again.

Fletcher is a talk show host, writer and activist. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and at www. billfletcherjr.com.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Obamacare is “the craziest thing...!”

That wasn’t Donald Trump speaking. Or Paul Ryan. Or any other Republican. It was former President Bill Clinton stumping for Hillary in Michigan.

And expanding Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act is even crazier! That’s why you need to attend this month’s Federal Policy Dinner, and learn how the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, has worsened Medicaid’s problems.

Enrollment and spending are much higher than expected, and has added significantly to Medicaid's unsustainable spending trajectory. Worse, it creates a large federal government bias towards nondisabled, working-age adults at the expense of traditional Medicaid enrollees.That’s the result of the Mercatus Center’s research, conducted by Senior Research Fellow Brian Blase.

Previously, Dr. Blase was with the Senate Republican Policy committee where he served as a health care policy analyst, and before that worked as senior professional staffer for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University in 2013, with his dissertation on Medicaid.

Michael Thompson ***** The attack on Obamacare is problematic. While the president’s

Affordable Care Act is clearly flawed, it expanded health insurance for more than 20 million people. It isn’t the desired single payer care, but it provides opportunity and takes the first step in expanding the social contract since the Roosevelt years.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) can be used as a foundation to expand health insurance coverage and, in my mind, get us closer to the ultimate goal of a single-payer system. But legislators rejected the single-payer plan that the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Ma) proposed for decades. The Affordable Care Act is a compromise. We need to move forward in improving the ACA, not backward in repealing it. Trump and Republicans would restrict access to health care instead of expanding it.

African Americans, especially, need to look at what Trump has promised.

He has promised discrimination. He has described our lives as hell. He has been a bully and a documented discriminator. He has been too much.

He should be enough to repel us.

Paul Ryan has called Trump a racist, but he is willing to dance with the devil because it serves his purposes.

What about you?

As we count down to the November 8 election, people are coming forward to say they are either undecided, conflicted, or would rather vote for a third party candidate, because they can’t tolerate Clinton Trump. The bottom line is that either Clinton or Trump will win the Presidency.

Really. Those Republicans who support Trump are openly supporting evil. They will dance with the devil to their detriment.

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Republicans own this Donald Trump’s shockingly offensive comments about women, which he made when he was nearly 60 years old, are the latest addition to a resumé filled with disparaging taunts against communities of color, insults directed at women, and appeals to the right-wing fringe.

What’s almost as shocking as Trump’s comments is the fact that Grand Old Party leaders like Reince Priebus, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell are still standing by him. In the parallel universe they live in, a good performance by Trump tonight would make up for his lifetime of offensive behavior. It won’t. There is no fixing the damage Trump has already wrought.

The Republicans, like Sen. John McCain, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Rep. Barbara Comstock, Rep. Cresent Hardy and Rep. Mike Coffman, who finally came to the realization that Trump might not have the character to be commander-in-chief are hardly political profiles in courage – not even close. As the AP reported, “with a month until Election Day, and early voting already underway in several states, the truest answer to why Republicans are dropping Trump now — and why they’re dropping him over this — is likely political.” They all stood by as Trump mocked disabled people, attacked a Gold Star family, and repeatedly took stances that only serve to divide our country.

A 90-minute debate simply can’t erase decades of divisive and offensive rhetoric and decisionmaking. Steve Schmidt, John

McCain’s presidential campaign’s top strategist said very succinctly today that “what this exposes is much deeper and goes to the Republican Party as an institution.

This candidacy – the magnitude of its disgrace to the country is almost impossible, I think, to articulate…

Over the course of the last year – these [Republicans] candidates who have repeatedly put their party ahead of their country, are denying what is so obviously clear to anybody who’s watching about his complete and total manifest unfitness for this office.”

We completely agree.

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War on women?

Hillary Clinton is running for president as an “advocate of women and girls,” but the hypocritical way she treats women in her personal quest for power could only be described as waging a war on women.

If Hillary intends to build her campaign around an appeal to women, her campaign is built on quicksand.

Hillary is a life-time abuser of women and her advocacy on women issues rings hollow.

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Nat Turner: A rebel and a man of faith ADELLE BANKS RNS - The story of Nat Turner, the slave and preacher who led a failed 1831 rebellion, is surrounded by mystery and speculation as to his motives and the role that faith played in the uprising.

Nate Parker, the controversial director, star and writer of “The Birth of a Nation,” a movie about Turner released Oct. 7, noted that his version is “based on a true story” rather than a historic retelling.

“The Confessions of Nat Turner,” the pamphlet that circulated widely after his execution, is both questioned for its accuracy and used

as a way to understand the motives of the man who rebelled against slavery. William Styron’s 1967 novel by the same name won a Pulitzer Prize but was harshly criticized by black writers.

Right: “Horrid Massacre in Virginia” during Nat Turner’s Rebellion, 1831 What is known is that Turner led a rebellion in Southampton County, Va., on Aug. 21, 1831, with dozens of slaves joining him in killing at least 55 whites over a two-day period. In the aftermath, an estimated 200 blacks, some free and some enslaved, were executed.

Here are six other aspects of Turner’s life and legacy that have been discussed by scholars: 1. He learned to read and write at an early age.

In his confessions to a Virginia lawyer who interviewed Turner before his execution, the rebellion leader was quoted about his ability: “I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet.”

“By and large, it was very rare for enslaved people to be able to read,” said James Dator, an assistant professor of history at Goucher College in Maryland.

He said Turner’s account of his reading ability appears to describe it “as something that just kind of happened to him, that was divined by God.”

2. He thought the world as he knew it was about to end.

“He believed that Jesus is coming back, like right away,” said Karl Lampley, author of “A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Christianity, Violence and Theology.”

“So he believed that he needed to fight on Christ’s side for this new age. And so he sort of believed in a new age of freedom for black slaves.”

Lampley differed with Thomas Gray, the white interviewer/author of “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” who declared the rebel could be a “complete fanatic.” The Santa Clara University lecturer instead views Turner as a man motivated by

apocalyptic theology.

“There’s a sense in which the revolt is inevitable,” Lampley said. “You have to kill your master. They’re not going to change their mind.”

In the confessions to the lawyer, Turner spoke of having visions of “white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle” and seeing a solar eclipse as the sign that “I should arise and prepare myself, and slay my enemies with their own weapons.”

Lampley said Turner integrated his visions with his belief in the Trinity.

“Regardless of how strange his visions might have been, he did have some sense of belief in God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit,” he said. “He did have some sense in which they told him to revolt.”

3. He baptized a white man.

In “The Confessions,” Turner is quoted recounting his baptism of a white man named Etheldred T. Brantley: “(W)hen the white people would not let us be baptised by the church, we went down into the water together, in the sight of many who reviled us, and were baptised by the Spirit — After this I rejoiced greatly, and gave thanks to God.” Lampley considers this cross-racial baptism to be a sign of the sincerity of Turner’s faith.

“He actually baptizes this guy and there’s no animosity,” he said.

“It’s simply an exchange, a religious exchange.”

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(from page 8) 4. He is linked to black spirituals.

Turner has been connected to the spiritual “Steal Away” and has been credited as its composer, said Eileen Guenther, author of “In Their Own Words: Slave Life and the Power of Spirituals.”

No other single individual has been given credit for composing a spiritual, she said.

“Steal Away” includes the repeated phrase “I ain’t got long to stay here,” which Guenther said reflects the tradition of spirituals to have one meaning to slaveholders and another to slaves.

“That’s a perfect code song because it can mean one thing to the white listeners, who would therefore not be alarmed because they thought it was religious — go to heaven and meet Jesus,” she said. “And mean something entirely different to the people who knew why they were singing it.”

5. His Bible was preserved.

Turner’s well-worn, coverless spiritual guide is

his deep faith that allowed him to do what he did,” said Rex Ellis, the museum’s associate director for curatorial affairs. The exhibit also contains a brick from the Whitehead plantation where Turner killed Margaret Whitehead during his rebellion.

Wood engraving illustrating Benjamin Phipps’ capture of Nat Turner (1800-1831) on Oct. 30, 1831. on display in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. “It was

6. His rebellion led to strictures against black Christianity.

Lampley said laws were enacted in Virginia after the rebellion that prevented blacks from gathering or having their own preachers.

“There had to be whites present at any time there was any kind of gathering,” he said.

Dator, a scholar of slavery and slave resistance, said those kinds of strictures occurred throughout the South after Turner’s actions.

“After his revolt, it’s not surprising that the white planter class really cracks down on any sort of autonomous black Christianity,” he said, “and sort of drives any semblance of black preachers in the South underground or under the firm control of white masters.”

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Black Lives Matter co-founder, Grisham talks equality efforts in Va. LAUREN BERG Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, speaks during “Rooting Out Injustice: Poverty, Race and the Role of Legal Aid” in Charlottesville, last week.

With nearly every seat filled in the Paramount Theater, “Rooting Out Injustice: Poverty, Race and the Role of Legal Aid” brought a diverse cast of speakers, including the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, to talk about the hardships faced by black Americans and the need for equality.

Best-selling author and Albemarle County resident John Grisham emceed the talk and spoke about his experiences as a young lawyer, just starting out, and representing people who couldn’t always pay, including people of color and immigrants.

Praising Central Virginia Legal Aid, Grisham said the organization helps people who often cannot help themselves.

“I always had trouble saying no to people, but when I had to, legal aid was there,” Grisham said. “Legal aid is there for the little people — for those without a voice.”

Douglas told the audience about efforts after the Civil War to make sure black citizens had equal access to public education and that the rules of law and evidence apply to all people alike. Unfortunately, she said, the country is still not seeing the equality those early activists hoped for, but today’s social movements are trying to change that.

“Black Lives Matter is taking up the mantle of their forbearers,” Douglas said.

Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, also spoke and started by clearing the air about what the movement actually wants and its origins.

“This did not happen by somebody waking up one day and thinking, ‘Let’s just add water and start a social movement,’” Garza said. “It’s about the violence against black bodies in America.”

Speaking about the current turmoil of social change, Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, took the audience through the past and current disenfranchisement of African-Americans in parts of Virginia.

Garza said Black Lives Matter really started after the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. For Garza, that incident felt personal and sparked outrage.

“I have a brother. He’s 27 years old, he’s tall, he’s brilliant and he has a huge afro, but he still lives, works and loves in a place that is not unlike Sanford, Florida,” Garza said. “He is still seen as a target and criminalized, even though he has never hurt a fly.”

“And yet, the stories about people like the Martin family are not isolated incidents,” she said. “They are the result of culture and a set of laws that allows for some lives to be valued and others not to be valued.”

Garza also spoke about eliminating the concept of white supremacy and how systemic racism affects the lives of people of color in everything from the legal system to the education system.

“Dismantling white supremacy

is not an attack on white people,” Garza said. “In fact, it’s a benefit.

It’s a burden and it’s a disadvantage.

It’s a skewed look at how the world functions. We are not fighting for black supremacy; we are fighting for the right of all of us to live with dignity.”

“We have to be courageous enough to face what whiteness means and what the impact is on our everyday lives,” she said. “For white people who want to help, the first and best thing you can do is to face what whiteness means. We cannot win justice on our own — we cannot continue to be the inspiration for justice without the full participation of everyone in our society.”

Acknowledging the vice presidential debate happening down the road in Farmville, Garza also told the audience to make a difference with their vote. To cast a vote, she said, means to have a say in things.

“You have a choice,” Garza said.

“You can vote for fear, anger and

anxiety or you can vote for hope. You can vote for a different kind of vision where all people get the dignity they deserve. That is a power you have in your hand.”

“It’s important that you make a clear statement that hate is not in the interest of this country.”

Closing out her talk about Black Lives Matter and the need for change, Garza reiterated the point of the movement.

“Black Lives Matter aims to end state-sanctioned violence once and for all,” Garza said. “We are fighting for the sanctity and dignity of all of us, and not just for black men.

We are fighting for black women, black queer people, black trans people, immigrants and the disabled community. Those people need to be at the forefront of any social movement — many of them are not the ‘perfect victims.’”

“This movement is not about making people feel comfortable.” © DP

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UVa study finds 10 percent of Va. schoolchildren are chronically absent MORIAH BALINGIT WASHINGTON — A University of Virginia study found that about one in 10 Virginia schoolchildren missed 18 or more days of school in the 2014-15 school year, offering the first statewide look at a problem that research has shown can derail a child’s education.

The study’s report aims to shine a light on the issue of chronic absenteeism across Virginia. Luke C. Miller, a research assistant professor who co-wrote the report, said he hopes it inspires more research into why students miss class and how to address it.

Educators have long focused on attendance issues, aware that students who miss class can quickly fall behind and have a difficult time catching up. Schools were previously more focused on overall attendance rates, which can mask the fact that some students are consistently missing class.

There has been a renewed focus on addressing chronic absenteeism since the U.S. Education Department recently began tracking the number of students who miss three or more weeks of school. The first figures, released in June, offered a sobering assessment: 6.5 million schoolchildren missed 15 or more days of school during the 201314 school year. The new federal education law also encourages states to track chronic absenteeism in their schools.

While the UVa report did not examine race or poverty rates among chronically absent students, national data has found that chronic absenteeism is more acute among African-American, Native-American, Pacific-Islander and Latino students, as well as students with learning disabilities. National studies have found poor, urban districts tend to have high rates of chronic

Luke C. Miller absenteeism, with as much as half of all students considered chronically absent.

Research has linked chronic absenteeism to a bevy of negative outcomes, showing what many would intuit: Students who miss lots of class are more likely to drop out or be held back.

“The importance of daily school attendance to students’ success is borne out by the research,” the authors of the report wrote. “Being absent from school predicts lower test scores, increased likelihood of being retained in grade and increased risky behaviors.”

The UVa researchers found that chronically absent students had lower pass rates on state exams than peers who showed up at school more consistently.

Miller said that finding was expected. But he was surprised to find that the effects of chronic absenteeism appeared to linger: Students who were chronically absent one year but attended school more consistently the next still had lower pass rates than peers who were never chronically absent.

“You see the kids that were chronically absent in prior years underperform students who weren’t,”

Miller said.

Miller said Virginia, where about 10 percent of students missed 18 or more days of school during the 201415 academic year, has a rate in line with the national average. About 13 percent of U.S. students missed 15 or more days of school during the 2013-14 school year. But the rates of absenteeism in Virginia vary widely from district to district and among grade levels.

The report found one in six highschoolers were chronically absent during the 2014-15 school year.

It also zeroed in on three school districts in Virginia — Petersburg, Richmond and Norfolk — that have far more absences than the state average.

But the state saw a decline of about 2 percentage points in the number of

students who were chronically absent between 2004 and 2015.

Miller said he hopes his report serves as a starting point for discussions about chronic absenteeism for policymakers and educators formulating strategies to address the issue. He said the research has found that low-cost initiatives — such as educating parents on the compounding effects of missing school — have shown to be effective.

“We’re hoping to continue to work with the Virginia Department of Education to continue to develop our understanding in Virginia and to share with other divisions and schools successful strategies that we believe have yielded positive results,” Miller said. © DP

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What’s missing from the BLM movement?

LIZ ADETIBA & JORDIE DAVIES The Oakland-based organizer and activist Alicia Garza (pictured), who is also the originator of the Black Lives Matter rallying cry and one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter Network, thinks blacks have a lot to talk about outside of police violence. In this interview, Garza discussed Black Youth Project (BYP) what she believed is missing from the movement, how it is portrayed in the media, and the various points of entry for activism–from politics to protest.

BYP: What is the role of black feminism in the Black Lives Matter movement? The Black Lives Matter website highlights the role of black women, including yourself, in creating BLM, and so I would like to know how this informs BLM as a network?

Garza: To me, the role of black feminism in the BLM Network…it’s one of our central principles. I wrote a piece in the feminist wire 2014, that was called “A Herstory of Black Lives Matter.” The original title was “Erasing the Black from Black Lives Matter.” What we were finding is that when Black Lives Matter was catching some kind of currency, people were substituting “black” for all kinds of stuff. What does it mean when you take “black” out, and insert something else? Is that a replication of colonialism? I think the thing that was really poignant to us was that this was our baby.

It was fascinating to see how men, in particular, would shift the conversation. I think it was an opportunity for us, to clarify what the politics were behind that statement.

What we talked about and rooted it in was that, as black women in this movement, our experiences have been varied. While we’re fighting for liberation, the role of black women, cis and trans, certainly was not valued. Patrisse [Cullors] and I have lots of stories about being in meetings, in a room full of men, even if there is other women in the room, the voices of women were not centralized, they weren’t even considered.

This is historical. All of the great movements that we lift up, we lift up men. Even when people in the mainstream media talk about Black Lives Matter, they talk about it as trying to solve problem of the police killings of black men, and we never said that. So for me, I think the role

of black feminism in this network, and in Black Lives Matter as we conceptualized it, was about what I would call holistic liberation. We’re not here just fighting for Black men. We acknowledge for us to get free as black people, we can’t leave anybody behind and that has to be the innovation in terms of this generation’s movement. We have to learn from movements prior to us that, quite frankly, could not be sustained because of the question of the disenfranchisement of women, because of the question of patriarchy.

So the role here is very much about complicating about how we understand liberation.

BYP: How do you feel when the movement is painted as primarily organizing around black males?

Garza: That’s bull! So, part of what I feel like we need to get better at is getting very precise about the ways state sanctioned violence impacts black communities. Black men, cis and trans, and black women, cis and trans, can have different experiences tied to the same thing under the same system. So black men are disproportionately killed by police.

That’s true. But black men are not the only ones who experience state violence, it just means that that’s the specific manifestation about how state violence impacts black men.

Black women are less likely to be killed by police, but more likely to be sexually assaulted or experience sexual violence at the hands of police,

as we saw in the case of Daniel Holtzclaw. And black women are differently criminalized than Black men. For black women, who are one of the fastest growing populations in prisons and jails, there’s specific angles: one angle is that black women are disproportionately survivors of intimate partner violence and domestic violence. Black women are more likely to heads of households because of the way the criminal justice system disappears people from our families and communities. When we look at the criminalization [of black women], it’s also often around economics.

I think part of what we have to look at here, is that it is not a competition between black women and black men; it’s actually about how do we take care of each other? How do we lift each other up and fight on each other’s behaves as if it was our own lives?

BYP: What do you think is missing from the current national and international conversation surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement?

Garza: I think the thing that I’m sitting with a lot lately is that is is not just about police violence. It is about reshaping the economy, very much about reshaping our school system, our places of worship, a complete transformation about the way we do things. So I think that’s the missing piece.

And I think inside of our movement there are still a lot of growing

edges. There’s a growing edge around disabilities. I don’t think we are as skilled at making sure that our family with various types of disabilities are central to the movement. The other piece that’s missing is a really fundamental understanding about what we’re up against. When I sit with elders, one thing they say is that they really underestimated the power of the state, and we didn’t actually understand the state as well as we thought we did. I think that is something that is still true for us, and it is something that will make or break this movement.

I think our practice with how we deal with conflict could be much better. I think our focus on care and caring for each other has to go beyond the way we talk about it–it’s very individual. It’s always like “take a day off.” It always involves capitalism. Those individual responses don’t do anything to interrupt the logic of capitalism. It’s very much like survival of the fittest.

What we need to do to interrupt the logic of capitalism is invest in collective care, as much as self care.

And do a little bit of a deeper dive around healing trauma. There’s lots of conversations about, you know, people being triggered, and everything is violent and I think that that’s dangerous. I think that that’s dangerous because we’re not as depthful as we could be around what it takes to address harm, and what we do to address trauma, and how we do that in a way where we don’t throw each other away but we build each other up.

BYP: Do you think the movement has been reduced to rallying around police brutality, instead of the many other ways blacks in this country may be systematically oppressed? If so, why do you think that is?

Garza: I think it has a lot to do with the way that some mainstream media outlets report on what this movement is. What happens a lot is that black men only get associated with criminal justice, or criminalization. For example, in the presidential debates, they think they’re talking about race when they talk about criminal justice, but yo, there’s so many things to be talking about as it relates to black folks.

You could be talking about access to health care, you could be talking about health disparities, like what’s

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The Library of Virginia will host Lee Smith at their Lecture Hall, 800 East Broad St., Richmond.

Smith is the 2010 Library of Virginia Literary Lifetime Achievement recipient, in a talk about “Dimestore”, her intimate memoir detailing the South she knew as she grew up, a place that in many ways has vanished.

Smith‘s home was in Grundy, a small coal town in Appalachia, where her father ran the local dime store. Although her parents raised her for life beyond the confines of Grundy, Smith’s love of the people, the culture, and the stories of her birthplace remain. The 15 essays in “Dimestore” are in some ways an ode to the people and life of a small town, but one peppered with the realities of her family’s struggle with mental illness and with an honesty and poignancy for the place that made her.

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(from page 14) but not the only way. happening in Flint, Michigan with water poisoning. You could be talking about the deficits in our education system, where black students by and large are not being educated but they’re being put in jails and prisons and detention facilities. We could go on and on.

I think that responsibility really rests in the way some actors in the mainstream media really limit the frame about what black people care about is police and the “justice” system. Some of it is nefarious and some of it is just the way that our news works. But most people can walk and chew gum at the same time. Most people understand that the things that they’re concerned about aren’t able to be limited to one issue. Movements get boiled down to soundbites, and that impacts how people get involved, how they see the movement, and whether or not they see themselves within it.

BYP: What was your attraction to Bernie Sanders in the primary? According to results from the GenForward Survey, majorities of young Americans across races (18-35) supported Sanders in the primaries and wanted him to be the democratic nominee for president. What do you think this says about the future of American politics?

Garza: I think that there isn’t cohesion yet around moving an electoral strategy that creates space for black people to build political power, and I think, in as much as we do have those conversations, it really does center around people’s disgust and dissatisfaction with the various systems that keep our people disenfranchised. And I get that. At the same time, I think it’s really important to make sure that we are organizing on multiple fronts. We shouldn’t leave any front untouched, in my opinion.

For me, I think that people confuse voting in the elections with supporting the system. And from an organizing standpoint, we need to deal with what we want, but we also need to deal with what is. Both of those things need to happen at the same time. And I think we mostly deal with what we want, rather than dealing with what is.

The reality is that I don’t love elections at all. I don’t buy into the narratives that our ancestors died so we can vote. That’s not true.

Our ancestors put their lives on the line to make sure that we could determine our own destiny, and voting was one way that happened—

It’s interesting because there were lots of critiques out there about people supporting candidates from the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, and I understand that. I have been part of that club at many times in my life, but as for where I’m at right now, we need to pick the terrain that we fight on. I believe that we should think about how to build alternatives, thinking and practicing about how to democratize this bourgeois democracy. And I think what it would require for this to be viable is masses of people getting organized to build another party, and then that party actually doing the groundwork to build a base…and that’s not really what’s happening.

Garza: This election season is rough, because both candidates are actually really concerning, but they’re not the same. They are absolutely not the same. I don’t support candidates on the presidential level, but I’m supporting a terrain that I want to fight on. So if Hillary Clinton gets elected, then I know what that terrain is and I’m going to fight like hell to make sure that she is accountable for all of the atrocities that she’s been involved in.

And if Donald Trump is president, that’s another kind of terrain. I’ve heard people say, ‘we already know that terrain, we’ve suffered so bad in our communities’….I get that. And it’s not to say that it’s going to be worse, it’s to say that it’s going to be different, and a less favorable terrain to fight and win on.

from the system of policing that they do not value black lives. So in essence, it feels like they’re just telling on themselves. Every time I see shit like that, I think ‘wow, you’re just showing your ass.’

From a strategy perspective, if I were them, I would be talking about how much we do care about black lives. I would be talking about how black people are also police officers.

That’s what I would be doing…but they’re not doing that. So number one, their strategist needs to be fired, and number two, it just becomes clearer and clearer to the general public that the system of policing refuses to acknowledge what they do, and refuses to take responsibility for what they do.

And I think that is one core reason as to why we’re seeing so much support for this movement because of the way police are engaging and interacting in the conversation, and because of the way they continue to act with impunity. I mean how many more videos can we see of people with disabilities getting shot and killed?

I just read an article today about a white man in Arizona who begged for his life before he was shot and killed by a police officer. He was doing absolutely nothing. So I think that those kind of measures are reactions to the power that the movement is building, and the power that this movement is demonstrating. And so the stronger we get, the harder they tried to come back. So I think we should also look at it as a litmus test for how successful we actually have been.

BYP: Blue Lives Matter has recently become a new rallying cry in response to BLM. With the recent deaths of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, some states have even written legislation in response to make attacking police officers a hate crime. What are your thoughts about this type of legislation?

Garza: One, it’s completely ridiculous. I’m not going to say I don’t understand where it’s coming from–I do. And that makes it even sillier.

At the end of the day, police are completely protected and sanctioned to commit all types of acts of violence, and they’re not held accountable in any way, shape or form. I don’t think we need more laws to protect the police. What I do think is that it demonstrates the irony of policing in and of itself.

Every time there is this move to come and say that Blue Lives Matter or create these dynamics where police somehow get lifted up and venerated, it’s a direct statement

BYP: What do you say to critics within the Black community and within organizing circles who don’t believe the movement is pushing far enough?

Garza: A lot this, I think, rests with an ahistorical narrative of the last period of civil rights. I think the way in which we are talked to about the accomplishments of what is known as the civil rights movement is talked about as if it happened overnight. ‘People marched, people boycotted and then we got free,’ right? It’s really disastrous. Most people, when they think of the Civil Rights Movement, think of it as the period between 1954 and 1968.

But the reality is that it ebbed and flowed for 40 years. And we are in our third year, so just compare those things. Yes, it is true that a cohesive movement needs to develop a strategy to build power and contend for power, and three years does not make that strategy, nor does three years make for enough time to build the power that we need to actually

change some shit. So my response to that is this: this is a marathon and not a sprint. So that’s one piece.

The other piece that I do think is… in my opinion, I think that what people want to see is black people not being murdered without consequences. The prevalence of social media that brings everything to your phone and your computer within seconds does create a level of anxiety about how quickly things are changing. So my response to those people would be ‘yes, and…’

Yes, and in three short years, this movement, this explosion in black organizing and black activism and black resistance has transformed the landscape of this country, and that is something we should celebrate.

And the other piece that I would respond with is to say that if you want to see things change, you have to be a part of that change.

We don’t need anymore arm chair quarterbacks. What we need is all of those people who are reading on their phones and computers and waxing poetic about what people need to be doing, to actually be doing it. With that being said, I’ve seen lots of instances where individuals will kind of run with something that requires a mass base. And that’s not what I’m talking about. It doesn’t mean that you sit in your kitchen and dream up a new policy and try to go at it on your own. It means that you have to do the hard work that many of these organizations are trying to do, which is organizing and bringing people together at scale, more than your five friends, to craft solutions to the problems that we face, and then to build strategies for how to get to those solutions.

That is what Charles Payne calls ‘slow and steady work.’ The similarities between the last period of civil rights and today, is that that work is still necessary.

Twitter is not going to change the world. It has revolutionized how we communicate and how we give and share information, but that’s just one piece. The other piece is actual, legit organizing. We’ve got a lot of work to do to figure out how we use these incredible communications tools to mobilize people in a real way. You know, we can get thousands of people to comment on Mary J. Blige and her video, but we still are not able to translate that into political power.

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