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of force “often boils down to what the imone Manuel defied officer believed when the force was America’s racist swimming used (something that is notoriously history in 52:70 seconds last difficult to standardize), regardless Thursday night when she became of how much of a threat actually the first black American woman existed.” to win any individual medal in So even though the movement swimming, let alone the gold. for black lives recently revealed a Manuel tied for first place, setting comprehensive police platform to an Olympic record with Canadian address racial injustices beyond swimmer Penny Oleksiak. But police brutality, Manuel reminds Manuel also recognized that her America and the rest of the world historic victory is inextricably tied that police violence remains a to the fight for justice against police critical issue. violence in the country she represents. Several black athletes have used “It means a lot, especially with the Olympics to call out American what is going on in the world racism. But for many black Olympic today, some of the issues of police Olympic gold medal winner Simone Manuel athletes before Manuel, the Olympic brutality,” Manuel said to reporters after her performance. “This win hopefully brings hope and change to some of Games have been a source of both pride and deep-seated conflict as the country they call home claims their victories while maintaining racial the issues that are going on. My color comes with the territory.” injustice against their community. Indeed, for many people of color, the Olympics are an opportunity to show At the 1936 games in Berlin, Jesse Owens helped America put Adolf Hitler they’re some of the best America has to offer while recognizing racial injustice. to shame by winning four gold medals for track and field — and still had to And Manuel’s statement on police brutality carries on this sordid legacy. enter through the back door of a reception in his honor when he returned Manuel brings the movement for black lives to the Olympics home. As the story goes, Muhammad Ali threw his 1960 gold medal in Manuel’s statement is especially poignant considering that just days before the Ohio River when he was refused service at a diner in his hometown of her historic win, the Department of Justice released a scathing report on the Louisville, Kentucky, shortly after winning for light heavyweight boxing in Baltimore Police Department, detailing numerous racial abuses endemic to the Summer Olympics in Rome. the department that are mirrored in police departments around the country. Eight years later, John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their fists in a But that’s due in large part to the fact that the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Black Power salute on the podium after winning for track and field at the coincide with the movement for black lives that has brought police violence games in Mexico City. Doing so resulted in their gold and bronze medals exacted against black and brown people to the forefront of national and being revoked. international conversation. “As soon as we raised our hands, it’s like somebody hit a switch,” said Over the past two years, with the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Carlos. “The mood in the stadium went straight to venom. Within days, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling and Korryn Gaines, and DOJ investigations Tommie and I were suspended from the U.S. Olympic team and had to leave into the Ferguson and Baltimore police departments, renewed attention has Mexico City early.” been placed on racism in the justice system and among law enforcement. National pride can appear fickle during the Olympics — especially when As Vox’s German Lopez has pointed out, a simple traffic violation, coupled black athletes, representing the best America has to offer, remind the world with systemic racial biases that disproportionately impact poor black and brown people, can create situations in which low-level offenses can spiral (and America) of the ways their country has failed them. Nonetheless, Manuel out of control into unpaid legal fees people can’t afford, or, even worse, an looks forward to the day when America takes pride in her accomplishments escalated police interaction that could cost them their lives. without having to think of her solely based on her racial identity. And yet, as the DOJ report showed, the lack of accountability only “It is something I’ve definitely struggled with a lot,” she said. “Coming into exacerbates these issues. As it stands, police are rarely indicted for killing the race I tried to take weight of the black community off my shoulders. It’s civilians, even as more video evidence of those killings becomes available. something I carry with me. I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there Rather, as Vox’s Dara Lind has pointed out, the legal standards for lethal use to be a day when it is not ‘Simone the black swimmer.’” © VOX
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Rescinded felon rights: It’s not a pass go LISA PROVENCE For DeShon Langston, having his right to vote restored—and then unrestored—was like having a really nice dream and waking up to reality. That’s his reaction to a 4-3 Supreme Court of Virginia decision last month that the state constitution did not give Gov. Terry McAuliffe the authority to restore voting rights en masse, as he did April 22 for more than 200,000 felons. By July 29, the Virginia Department of Elections had placed all of those names back on the prohibited voter list. Last week, people like Langston, who had registered to vote, began getting letters advising them their registration had been canceled.
DeShon Langston When he got out of prison in 2005 for drug distribution charges, Langston, 41, returned to his home state of Michigan, where felon voting rights are restored automatically
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upon release from prison. “The first time I ever voted was in 2008 in Michigan for Barack Obama,” he said. “I was on probation.” But he returned to Virginia, which doesn’t make it so easy and requires felons to petition the governor to get their voting rights back. Encouraged by Virginia Organizing’s Harold Folley, Langston previously tried to get his voting rights restored online, but was told he’d need to provide more information. “I’ve got a wife, two young kids, two jobs,” he said. “I got other things on my mind.” When McAuliffe signed his blanket restoration, “it felt like a step up for the future, where I can participate in my local government,” said Langston. He wonders about the GOP-led opposition to him voting. “Is that how Virginia really feels about felons working to get their lives together?” he asks.
And he’s convinced the restrictions on felon voting are racially motivated because the majority of felons are black. “Whatever their motivation is, it’s not benefiting me,” he said. Curtis Gilmore Jr., 55, felt like he earned having his rights restored. He, too, was convicted of drug charges and has been out of prison since Dec. 22, 2009. Gilmore works at a diner and is trying to be a productive citizen, and “not feel like I’m second class,” he said. Now he wants to live a more conventional life, where before, “I always lived in the dark world—a life that could get you killed or get you locked up,” he said. He has seven grown children. “None of them turned out like me, thank God,” he said, putting his hands together in a prayer gesture.
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Gov. Terry McAuliffe will host his first-ever “African American Business Summit” on Tuesday, Aug. 30, at Virginia Union University’s Living and Learning Center located at 1500 N. Lombardy St. in Richmond. The summit is the first in a series of SWaM-focused business summits to connect Virginians to state resources, according to the governor’s office. The mission of summit is to connect black entrepreneurs and business leaders with state resources and services to help build and grow businesses and support the new Virginia economy. Additionally, the summit will provide an opportunity for the McAuliffe administration to gain a deeper understanding of issues impacting black businesses. The summit will provide stakeholders, entrepreneurs,
and business leaders with the opportunity to engage with the administration and hear from experts on how to create, maintain, and grow businesses. “Since the beginning of my administration, I’ve remained committed to increasing opportunities for Virginia’s minority business community. I understand that in order to create the new Virginia economy, we have to ensure that everyone has access to opportunities to do business with or work with the commonwealth,” said McAuliffe. Black businesses have often been at a disadvantage when it comes to winning government contracts due to discrimination and cronysm. To register for the conference, visit: http://commonwealth.virginia.gov/ afambizsummit.
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In Richmond, workers press for higher wages STAFF & WIRE
PN — Thousands of workers were in Virginia’s capital city to push for higher wages during the first-ever “Fight for $15 Convention” held Friday and Saturday. Workers gathered to press for a $15 minimum wage nationwide. The event drew thousands of low-wage workers from the fast food, retail, home care, child care and farming industries, unions, among others at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. On Saturday, organizers noted that about 8,000 workers marched down Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Dr. William J. Barber III, president of the North Carolina NAACP, gave the keynote address.
Leaders of the national movement said they selected Richmond because it was the capital of the Confederacy and displays “the enduring effects of racist policies that are holding back low-paid workers of color today.” Marvette Hodge, a homecare worker in Richmond, said she knows the struggle of working hard and not making enough money to support her family. “Me and my children were homeless in 2009, we were homeless for a couple of years,” she said. “Only making $9 an hour or coming from other jobs where I’ve been paid less than that, it’s hard to pay your rent. Coming from a mother who’s been homeless before in trying my best to avoid that from happening again with me and my family.”
SEIU Virginia 512 members were at the airport welcoming ‘#FightFor15’ leaders from across the country to Richmond for the first ever national Fight for 15 Convention. PHOTO: SEIU She was one of thousands taking part in the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15. “In today’s economy, it is unbelievable to try to live on $8.50 an
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Preschool grants meant for eligible children have access The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF), in consultation with the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), will award five grants to local communities that have proposed innovative approaches to ensure all children eligible for the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) are able to access programming. VECF will award $250,000 each to United Way - Thomas Jefferson Area, James Madison University, United Way of Roanoke Valley, Smart Beginnings Rappahannock Area, and Wythe County Public Schools for pilots that include a variety of community partners. “Early childhood development is critical in ensuring our children have the best opportunities to succeed in K-12 and beyond,” said Gov. Terry
McAuliffe. “I introduced funding for these pilots so as to encourage bold and collaborative new approaches to ensuring any child eligible for VPI is able to benefit from the program. In order to build the workforce of the future, we must ensure that we are preparing all of our students to succeed in the new Virginia economy, beginning with high quality early childhood education.” The funding for the grants was included in the governor’s introduced budget and was approved by the General Assembly. Additionally, the General Assembly passed House Bill 47 (Patron: Greason) outlining its intent for the use of the funding. “These pilots propose exciting solutions to the barriers many communities face when trying
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Consumers want action on illegal debt collection methods and CFPB agrees CHARLENE CROWELL TEWIRE - If you are one of the 77 million Americans who are hounded each year by debt collectors, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking on this $13 billion industry. At a July 28 field hearing in Sacramento, Richard Cordray, CFPB director, announced the Bureau’s intent to rein in illegal practices that harass and rob consumers. “Today we are considering proposals that would drastically overhaul the debt collection market. Our rules would apply to third-party debt collectors and to others covered by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, including many debt buyers. . . . The basic principles of the proposals we are considering are grounded in common sense. Companies should not collect debt that is not owed. They should have more reliable information about the debt before they try to collect,” said Director Cordray. “In the debt collection market, notably,” he continued, “consumers do not have the crucial power of choice over those who do business with them when creditors turn their debts over to third-party collectors. They cannot vote with their feet. They have no say over who collects their debts, and they likely know next to nothing about the collector until they receive a call or a letter. The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 2 No. 38 Mailing Address 409 E. Main Street 4 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com
This can quickly lead to a barrage of communications, which in some cases are designed to be harassing or intimidating.” Reactions to CFPB’s proposals were as swift as they were direct. Consumer advocates, like People’s Action Institute, a national organization working in 30 states for economic, environmental, racial and gender justice weighed in. “We’re encouraged to see the CFPB take steps to end aggressive and abusive debt collection practices and protect consumers from the often illegal activities of debt collectors,” said LeeAnn Hall, co-executive
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director of People’s Action Institute. Similarly, Graciela Aponte-Diaz, the Center for Responsible Lending’s California Policy Director, who testified at the hearing and was even more direct. “We know from research and enforcement actions in the states that over the past decade that debt buyers and other debt collectors have extracted millions of dollars in payments and court judgments from U.S. households for debts that are too old to be sued on, can’t be back up with basic documentation like a contract or other proof the consumer actually owes a debt, or where the debt buyers or their attorneys filed false documents in court,” noted Aponte-Diaz, “Reports have shown that these debt collection activities have a disproportionate impact on communities of color,” AponteDiaz continued, “majority black neighborhoods are hit twice as hard by debt collection court judgments as majority white neighborhoods, even adjusting for differences in income.” A recent national consumer poll that was jointly commissioned by CRL and Americans for Financial Reform found broad and bipartisan concerns regarding debt collectors that sue without evidence. Overall 84 percent of respondents expressed concerns about a million consumers being sued each year without evidence to prove their cases in court. When partisan preferences were
factored into responses, 9 out of 10 Independents and Democrats were concerned, as were 78 percent of Republicans. In recent years, several states -- including California, Maryland, New York and North Carolina --have cracked down on enforcement actions that required among other things that debt collectors use full and accurate information and documentation when collecting debts. At the federal level since 1977, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act granted the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) oversight authority in debt collection. Following the enactment five years ago of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and the creation of CFPB, both offices now accept debt collection complaints. Last year, 2015, more than 900,000 consumers filed complaints with the FTC. That same year, CFPB returned $360 million to consumers wronged by illegal debt collection practices. Additionally, CFPB collected $79 million in fines from debt collectors. “Consumers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and businesses should be able to operate fairly and reasonably to collect the debts they are legitimately owed,” said Cordray. Lisa Stifler, deputy director of state policy and leader of CRL’s debt
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Talk of justice
We need you, your family, friends to urge your district state legislators to amend the Virginia Code Statute governing sentencing guidelines and urge your support for legislation in 2017 that will grant resentencing proceedings to those who were sentenced by juries that were not instructed that parole was abolished in Virginia. Here is why? 1. In more than 3,000 cases between 2007 and 2013, judges provided no written reason for exceeding sentencing guidelines -- even though they are required to do so by law. What’s worse, Virginia law does not allow this to form the basis of post-conviction relief or be reviewable on appeal. To correct these injustices, we urge you to amend subsections B and F of the statute to read as follows: B: In any felony case, other than Class 1 felonies, in which the court imposes a sentence which is either greater or less than that indicated by the discretionary sentencing guidelines, the court shall file with the record of the case a written explanation of such departure. The written explanation must show a substantial and compelling reason for the departure and must adequately explain the chosen sentence to allow for meaningful appellate review and to promote the perception of fair sentencing. Any factor or reason given to justify the departure must not be one that has already been considered in calculating the guidelines recommendation, including such factors and reasons for enhancement in the provisions of Code § 17.1-805. F: The failure to follow any or all of the provisions of this section or the failure to follow any or all of the provisions of this section in the
prescribed manner or the failure to impose sentence within the range recommended by the sentencing guidelines shall be reviewable on appeal. In reviewing the sentence, the appellate court must first ensure that the court made no significant procedural errors and then consider the sentence’s substantive reasonableness under a deferential abuse-of-discretion standard, taking into account the totality of the circumstances. This provision shall be retroactive to all cases where the defendant is presently under the custody of the Virginia Department of Corrections pursuant to felony offense. 2. Between 1995 and 2000, juries were imposing sentences without knowing that Virginia abolished parole in 1995. They were not informed even in cases when juries asked if there was parole. Jurors had to make important decisions without having all the pertinent information. This created sentencing disparities. Some jurors have publicly stated they would have imposed shorter sentences had they known parole was abolished. On June 9, 2000, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled in Fishback v. Commonwealth that judges must instruct jurors that parole has been abolished, stating that it “simply defies reason” not to give jurors the information. However, its ruling did not apply to sentences already imposed. Nearly 500 people received sentences of more than 20 years between January 1, 1995 and June 9, 2000. According to the director of the Virginia Sentencing Commission, they are likely still incarcerated. We need legislation that would grant them an opportunity to be resentenced by a fully informed jury. The administration wants to address this error by allowing those injured by it the chance to
be eligible for parole. However, this will not fix the problem for all affected defendants. This is clear with the case of Daniel Richard Ford III, who, despite getting a pretrial sentencing recommendation of 6 and a half years, was instead sentenced in 1999 by a jury to 305 years for a nonviolent drug offense, now commuted to 40 years.Being put up for parole now would have no effect on this wildly inappropriate sentence. The government made a mistake 20 years ago and you have the opportunity to be a part of fixing it. We cannot delay any longer. The time to act is now. Help pass legislation in 2017 that will rectify these injustices. Support and share the below petition link: https:// actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-theunfair-sentencing-trap-in-va . Lillie Branch-Kennedy Founder, RIHD
Champions
I just received my TIME Magazine (Aug. 8, 2016) copy, with the cover picture and lead article about Simone Biles, Olympic gymnast. Once in every lifetime comes an athletic phenomenon that we are privileged to watch…and celebrate. Now is such a time and place. Amongst us, walks a “living legend,” and she is only 19 years old. She is probably the greatest female gymnast who has ever lived…and she is continually improving, just in time for the 2016 Rio Olympics. She is Simone Biles, world champion gymnast. If I had not witnessed it myself, I would not have believe it. I have been a gymnastic enthusiast for decades and decades. I believe it to be one of the most challenging and difficult sports that there is…and with such a short-lived career span for competitiveness and superiority. I firmly believe that Simone Biles
will go now as one of the greatest athletes of all time…in any sport. At the recent national women’s tournament in St. Louis, (June 24 and 26, 2016), Biles won her fourth consecutive national title in the allaround events and gold medals in three of the four individual events. This has not been done by a female gymnast in 42 years. Almost every gymnastic coach, trainer and expert agree that “Biles is the very best that they have ever seen…and she is getting better and better….” Recently, Biles has been getting the national and international accolades that she so richly deserves. Therefore, let us all appreciate this truly once in a lifetime athletic phenomenon. In her sport, she is the absolutely “G.O.A.T.” - Greatest Of All Time. John L. Horton Norfolk
(from page 6) collection work provided further assessment: “We commend the CFPB for seeking reforms to this issue that harms millions of people, particularly low-income consumers and communities of color.” “However, we are concerned that the proposals do not go far enough to protect consumers from unfair collection attempts. Specifically, the proposal does not go far enough to require that debt collectors adequately document that they are pursuing the right person for the right debt,” Stifler added. She concluded, “When people are being wrongly pursued for debts they do not owe, it is time for action and reforms.” Crowell is deputy communications director for the Center for Responsible Lending. She can be reached at Charlene.crowell@ responsiblelending.org.
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Pastors: Covering nudity in art reflects church’s unwillingness to discuss important issues NORMAN JAMESON When Convergence, a congregation with Baptist ties in Alexandria, Va., hosted Edward Knippers’ massive paintings in an exhibition called “Violent Grace,” it had to cover the works during worship services of the Anglican congregation that shares its space. Why? Not because of the violence portrayed in the biblical stories — the death, torment, crucifixion and slaughter — but because the characters in Knippers’ dramatic depictions typically are nude, whether viewed from front or back. During an exhibit preview Convergence pastor and artistic director Lisa Cole Smith said the Anglican pastor cited children to explain his reluctance to have the works on display. “He kept saying to me, ‘I’m sure you understand. You wouldn’t want to have this conversation with your children,’” Smith said. “I kept coming back to say, ‘No, I do want to have this conversation and to create a space where it’s safe to have this conversation.” Knippers’ paintings command the room on canvasses 9 by 12 feet, with brilliant colors and arresting scenes in which fully gendered bodies are bent and bowed. They express the humanness of Christ and the “embodied factor of the Christian faith,” according to Smith, who curated the show. When Jonah is spit from the fish or babies are ripped from their mothers’ arms in the Massacre of the Innocents, the violence and blood of the acts is not sanitized with a covering of clothing. Knippers’ work in the exhibition, which closed July 22, “digs into the reality of human existence,” Smith said. “It deals with God and
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man facing the reality of evil. … The refracted light of later works represents the spirit of God breaking into the physical realm and the destruction that causes. The nudity and violence is just portraying stories in the Bible. People tend to forget the real violence in the Bible.” “We’re not willing to be naked before our own issues.” The raw power and drama of the works prompt self-examination, a basic premise of art and a discipline most Christians ignore, according to Stephen Martin, an artist and pastor of First Baptist Church in Kernersville, N.C. Martin was an artist in Austin, Texas, before pursuing training for the pastorate. His doctoral thesis at Drew University examined art in the church. “Self-examination gets more uncomfortable the more we expose,” Martin said. “The more we talk, the more we reveal, the more we see. But we have built-in, innate sensors that keep us from seeing who we are.” He said that censorship prevails in churches when we “gloss over issues, in essence clothing the problem. We
have a great heritage of covering up that which we do not want to expose. “We’re not willing to be naked before our own issues.” American culture is highly sexualized in part, Smith said, because Christians do not contribute to the culture as much as they react to it. Culture influences church “because our responses are usually against something, rather than creating and throwing something into the stream,” Smith said. That extends to sex education that simply says “don’t” instead of offering a “healthy image of what it looks to be human” and that sexuality is “good and natural and here’s how we express that in a healthy way.” Americans are “prudish about bodies, but obsessed with them,” treating people in “almost a dehumanizing way, like a commodity,” Smith said. When we cover art with sheets and cloak discussions of humanness with titters and blushes we promote “shame connected with bodies,” and the eating disorders and social media bullying that result.
“We as Christians are the body of Christ, so how we look at our bodies makes a difference,” Smith said. Martin had every intention of incorporating his early arts background with ministry. He started an arts academy in the rural setting of his first pastorate because arts and music were not encouraged in the local high school. Some 80 people enrolled, from ages 8 to 84. He integrated art into corporate worship, often utilizing the newly released talents of his academy students. He has not been able to replicate that success in succeeding locations. “Visual dialog is not a part of Baptist expression,” Martin said. It frustrates both the artist and the pastor in him, because “art and theology dance together in wonderful expression,” and “cultural relevancy impacts theological reflection.” “It’s no wonder the artists are no longer in church, no wonder they run to the hills,” Martin said. “Artists are about revealing, exposing, examining. That demands pushing the envelope, showing nudity, showing anger, frustration.” Instead, Smith said, “lack of critical thinking” prompts us either to “shut things out or absorb it completely, as opposed to creating space to have a difficult conversation.” Failure to engage the culture and provide safe space for these conversations leads to “very disturbing messages about the body in our culture.” Smith said. Nudity itself is not sexual, but failure to discuss leads to breastfeeding mothers being accosted in public. “And it’s totally natural. People dismiss things outright out of fear.” “We have bodies our entire lives. We rely on them,” Smith said. “Shouldn’t that be a part of what we talk about?”
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Black families work more, earn less, and face difficult choices NEWS ANALYSIS (CAP) - Families across the United States are facing a child care crisis, but black families are especially hard hit by the rising cost of child care and limited options for working families. Today, three in four black children under age six have all residential parents in the workforce. By comparison, the rate is only 63 percent for non-black children. For decades, black women have worked at higher rates than other women, meaning that child care has long been a necessity for these families. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the majority of children under age five are children of color.
low. Even when high-quality child care is available, the price can exceed the cost of median rent or even college tuition. The average annual cost of center-based child care for an infant and a 4-year-old is nearly $18,000, which amounts to 42 percent of the median income for a typical African American family. And while African American parents are more likely to work, they earn 40 percent less on average than non-Hispanic white families. Black parents find themselves in an impossible situation: Child care is an urgent need, but they have fewer resources with which to purchase care. Coping with the child care dilemma can be difficult and timeconsuming for most parents but is particularly so for black parents. When faced with the high cost of child care, some parents may consider leaving the workforce
These demographic trends provide a glimpse into the future—one in which the American educational systems and workforce will feature increasing racial and ethnic diversity. By 2044, more than half of all Americans are projected to be people of color. Policymakers must take steps now to acknowledge and address the child care challenges that families of color face so that their children can find success in the workforce of tomorrow. While researchers repeatedly affirm the deep and long-lasting developmental benefits of highquality early care and education, the supply of affordable, quality options for all families remains distressingly
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U.S. school teachers to visit VCU to explore history of school desegregation in Va. As part of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, 72 social studies teachers from across the United States will visit Virginia Commonwealth University next summer to gain an in-depth understanding of Virginia’s experience with school desegregation. The one-year, $175,000 grant — awarded to project co-directors Brian Daugherity, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of History in the College of Humanities and Sciences, and Yonghee Suh, Ph.D., associate professor of social studies and history education at Old Dominion University — will explore the history of school desegregation in Virginia, as well as the ramifications and legacies of that process for the state and the rest of the country. “One of the misperceptions of the civil rights era is that it occurred primarily in the Deep South — states like Alabama, Mississippi and others,” Daugherity said. “In reality, the struggle for equality was taking place all over the nation, and Virginia’s role was particularly important.” Lawyers for Virginia’s leading civil rights group, the NAACP, were involved in both the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 that found state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, as well as a series of subsequent decisions that forced southern states to comply with the Brown ruling. “Virginia’s role in the civil rights era, particularly with regards to school desegregation, was tremendous,” Daugherity said. “The goal of this project is to bring school teachers from around the country — and from Virginia — to VCU to help them better understand the history [of school desegregation in Virginia] so they can take that knowledge
resistances and fights for school desegregation and consequences of this desegregation process directly impact our schools and society.” During next summer’s workshops, the Long Road from Brown participants will visit a number of sites across Virginia that played pivotal roles in the civil rights era and in school desegregation.
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struggle for equality was taking place all over the nation, and Virginia’s role was particularly important.” Brian Daugherity
Jody L. Allen back and develop even more effective instructional activities for their students.” The grant, “The Long Road from Brown: School Desegregation in Virginia,” is part of the NEH’s Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for School Teachers program, which provides K-12 teachers with workshops that use historic sites to address central themes and issues in American history, government, literature, art, music and related subjects in the humanities. The grant was announced last week and is one of 20 such projects across the country. “Our workshops cover relatively unknown stories of the desegregation process in Virginia after Brown v. Board of Education and its legacies on the nation as a whole,” Suh said. “These are especially unknown stories to students in K-12 schools since Brown is often presented as one of the most significant democratic achievements in U.S. history curriculum and state standards. I hope teachers learn from the workshops that there were strong
They will visit Prince Edward County, which shuttered its public schools from 1959 to 1964 to avoid integration, as well as New Kent County, out of which arose the Supreme Court’s 1968 decision in Green v. School Board of New Kent County that hastened the pace of school desegregation across the country. The teachers will also visit a number of other historic sites and archives around Virginia, and will hear guest lecturers from civil rights scholars from Longwood University, Norfolk State University, the College of William & Mary, Virginia Tech, and elsewhere. VCU Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives, the Library of Virginia, and Virginia State University in Petersburg are also partners on the project. Daugherity and Suh led workshops for teachers on Virginia’s experience with school desegregation in 2015. Sheri Gilreath-Watts, a high school English teacher from Grand Rapids, Michigan, was one of around 70 teachers who took part that summer. “This has reminded me that I can’t take my education for granted and I will be passing that on to the kids so they don’t take their education for granted as well,” she said, having just listened to Jody L. Allen, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of history at William & Mary, give an in-depth
lecture on Green v. School Board of New Kent County at New Kent High School. “A few former participants from other states, such as Colorado, Utah and Washington among others, shared that they had never known Virginia's resistance against Brown and that this historical knowledge offers a new perspective to look at Brown and the narrative of the civil rights movement,” Suh said. “They also appreciated the opportunities this new perspective allowed them to re-think and re-learn stories about school desegregation in their own states, which is one of the powerful and important outcomes of our workshops.” Daugherity coedited a collection of essays, “With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education” (University of Arkansas Press, 2008), that examined the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in various states around the nation. He is also the author of the newly released book, “Keep On Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia”. Additionally, he is co-producing a 60-minute documentary on the U.S. Supreme Court decision Green v. New Kent County.
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At 73, she settles into Botswana mission It is never too late to pursue a dream and one person with ties to Virginia is proving that age-old adage right. Hampton University alumna Bettie Anderson (right), of Chesapeake, has settled into her Peace Corps assignment in Botswana, training as a health volunteer. She decided to volunteer after her mother passed away in 2015. Anderson is living and working in a community to support efforts in providing health services to people living with HIV, the elderly, orphans and vulnerable children. While this is her first time serving as a volunteer overseas, Anderson, who made headlines last month following her selection at age 73, is intimately familiar with the Peace Corps’ mission. In 1963, while an undergraduate student at Hampton University, she was appointed to serve as the school’s Peace Corps recruiter. According to the organization, 7 percent of all volunteers are older than 50. “Becoming a part of Peace Corps was a desire that I had more than 50 years ago,” said Anderson prior to her departure. “When my family obligations ended, I knew that it was now time to apply. “My vision is to be of service to others and build positive relationships that will promote the best of America.” During the first three months of her Peace Corps service, Anderson is living with a host family in Botswana to become fully immersed in the country’s language and culture. After acquiring the necessary skills to assist her community, Anderson will be sworn into service and assigned to a community in Botswana, where she will live and work for two years with the local people. There are 175 Volunteers in Botswana working with their communities on projects in community economic development, health, and youth development, according to Peace Corps. During their service in Botswana, volunteers
learn to speak local languages, including Setswana. More than 2,530 Peace Corps volunteers have served in Botswana since the program was established in 1966. Anderson, a mother and grandmother, joins two other Hampton University alumni currently serving overseas in the Peace Corps and 76 Hampton University alumni who have served in the Peace Corps since 1961. “My major goal is to be of assistance in helping people combat a major disease. I also hope to be an effective communicator at home to encourage others to become more active in their own communitites or help others in other countries,” said Anderson. Anderson said she is excited for “meeting new people, learning a new language, being of assistance and learning more about a different culture” during her Peace Corps service. She is working in cooperation with the local people and partner organizations on sustainable, community-based development projects that improve the lives of people in Botswana and help Anderson develop leadership, technical and cross-cultural skills that will give her a competitive edge when she returns home. Peace Corps, notes that its volunteers return from service as global citizens well-positioned for professional opportunities in today’s global job market. At Hampton, she served as editorin-chief of the university newspaper, the Hampton Script, and earned a B.A. in sociology in 1964. In 1970, Anderson earned an M.A. in Student Personnel Services from Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Prior to joining the Peace Corps, she served as president of the Board of Directors at the Greater Paterson Opportunities Industrialization Center, president of the Paterson YWCA, and secretary of the Board of Directors at the Association for Equality and Excellence in Education in New York City.
(from page 9) whole of society and its effects can and benefits. This amounts to a 20 percent reduction in her lifetime earnings and is three times more than the rule-of-thumb wage loss that she might have estimated as five years of sacrificed income. With such difficult choices for families—and in particular black families who are doubly penalized by lower wages and higher rates of parental labor force participation— policymakers must take steps to ease the child care burden. A recent poll commissioned by the Center for American Progress, which surveyed women of color in the battleground states of Florida, Nevada, Colorado and Virginia, found that access to child care is an important issue for black women. When asked—“What are two of the most important issues that politicians should address?”—25 percent of respondents listed access to affordable child care. Additionally, 73 percent of black women in these states felt that a universal public preschool program guaranteeing every three and four year-old access to high-quality early education would help people like them. High-quality child care benefits the
last a lifetime. Children who attend quality child care programs are more likely to have future educational success, more likely to be employed, and are more likely to develop positive social and emotional skills than those who do not attend similar programs. Unfortunately for far too many families, whether they are families of color or not, high-quality child care is simply unaffordable. When policymakers debate how to spend resources efficiently, they should note that the president’s Council of Economic Advisers found a return on investment of $8.60 for every dollar spent on early childhood. About half of that economic benefit comes in the form of higher earnings for today’s children when they enter the workforce of tomorrow. In order to keep the nation’s workforce competitive in the future, policymakers must focus on providing supports for the families that most need quality child care options. American families of color are calling on their leaders to address the child care crisis. By acknowledging the racial disparities in how much families work and earn, they can effectively invest in shared prosperity for all.
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(from page 4) Organizers said the “Fight for 15” movement has expanded to include more than fast-food workers. People at the convention work in 20 different industries — including hair salons, cellphone companies, truck companies and universities. “We want family and friends and neighbors to hear us. We want them to join us and turn out a vote. We want our elected officials to understand they need to stand with working people and we need corporations to come to the table and bargain with fast food workers and retail workers to change this country once and for all,” said SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry. The group has received support from civil right activists like Barber, president of North Carolina’s NAACP, who spoke at the end of the march. “In America, race and class have to be understood. They go together. Racial discrimination has created economic injustice,” said Barber. Barber said this movement is about marching in solidarity…to increase pay for everyone. “Dr. King said when we lift the poor, we lift everybody. Too often in the south, there’s been a strategy to play poor whites against blacks and against Latinos. What we’re doing is coming together to say that won’t work anymore,” he said. But some economists and business owners maintain raising the minimum wage to $15 would hurt small business.
Low-wage workers held the 1st annual 'Fight for 15' Convention in Richmond. Here, SEIU 221 President David Garcias; executive board member, Andrea Maestas; and member leaders Adela Martinez, and Diana Rojano join the cause at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, and below at the subsequent rally. “By raising that burden on a small business owner, you’re increasing their labor costs and they have to figure out, ‘How do I absorb that cost?” Nicole Riley, the Virginia Director for the Federation of Independent Business, said The increase could mean raising
prices for customers, cutting hours for employees or even moving toward automation to replace employees. Still, workers are hopeful. “To see other people in the same category as I am, and to know that there are 300 or 400 other women like me, it does something to me. It
opens my heart to know I’m not the only one that’s fighting for the same thing,” said Hodge. The group created a resolution to keep the “Fight for 15” movement moving forward. Participants plan on having a National Day of Action on Sept. 12.
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Heat fails to keep music lovers away from festival Entertainers Vanessa L. Williams and Stephanie Mills were among the artists who wowed concert goers at the annual Richmond Jazz Festival this weekend even as temperatures soared to the nineties with heat indices well above 100. Other performers included Al Jarreau Wyclef Jean and Herbie Hancock Water became the preferred beverage and ice cream the preferred snack as attendees listened to soulful sounds beneath shady trees and personal umbrellas.
Cybersecurity scholarship program accepting Virginia student applications You can now submit an application for a share of a $1 million state scholarship fund for students studying cybersecurity. The Virginia Cybersecurity Public Service Scholarship Program will award $20,000 to Virginia students who study how to safeguard computer networks, data and electronic resources. In order to keep the scholarship, students must work at a Virginia state agency or institution for as many years as they receive the scholarship. “As we work to build a new Virginia economy, we must ensure that our electronic infrastructure is secured against cyberattacks,” said Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “That is why I launched ‘Meet the Threat: States Confront the Cyber Challenge’ at the National Governors Association in July. It is imperative that states promote programs to help students tackle the cybersecurity challenges of the 21st century. The Cybersecurity Public Service Scholarship Program is an excellent approach to building our cyber workforce as we continue to enhance the Virginia’s reputation as an international leader in cyber innovation and security.”
The governor allotted $500,000 in the 2016-2018 biennial budget for the scholarships. About 25 scholarships will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis. Recipients can receive the scholarships for up to two years. In order to receive the scholarship, applicants must be a full-time student in a cybersecurity program at a Virginia nonprofit private or public college or university, be within two years of graduation from an undergraduate or graduate program and have at least a 3.0 GPA. “The only way we can produce the kinds of students who are eager to take on the demands of the new Virginia economy is by making sure we are providing them with the skills they need,” said Secretary of Education Dietra Trent. “Expanding opportunities in cybersecurity through this scholarship program will be a key component in preparing students for rewarding and impactful careers.” Applications for the coming school year will be accepted until Sept. 15. For details, visit the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia website.
Vanessa L. Williams performed for an interested crowd at the Richmond Jazz Festival where water was the best friend of many attendees who also took advantage of the ample shade provided by Maymont’s award-winning trees.
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Black farmers continue pressing USDA for justice BARRINGTON M. SALMON TEWIRE - For more than two decades, black farmers have driven tractors to Capitol Hill and walked the halls of Congress, coaxing, cajoling and confronting lawmakers. They have also filed lawsuits, protested and demonstrated. All of this an effort to correct an admittedly egregious legacy of racism and discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Despite high profiled settlements several years ago, just last month, three dozen farmers and their supporters from Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky descended on the steps of the United States Supreme Court. At the rally and
demonstration, the protesters promised to fight until they’re heard and one of their members, Bernice Atchison, filed a writ with the Supreme Court. “[Former USDA Secretary Dan] Glickman acknowledged that the agency had discriminated against black farmers. We have dealt with bias, discrimination and double standards,” said Georgia Farmer Eddie Slaughter. “We had supervised accounts which meant they had power over our money and county loan officers discriminated against black farmers. It’s been nothing but fraud, deceit and breach of contract. Our damages are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. They have persecuted us and now, 35-40 percent of black farmers have been run out of the business. They were supposed to
return one and a half million acres of land to black farmers but didn’t.” “We’re here to say black farmers of 2016 are the Dred Scott of 1857. He demanded to be free,” said Slaughter. “The fraud and corruption amounts to economic terrorism against black farmers. We don’t have anyone standing up for us. The Congressional Black Caucus or President Barack Obama could have created a national investigative commission. But they’ve done nothing. Equal justice under the law does not exist in this.” Bernice Atchison, president of Black Farmers of Alabama, agreed as she recounted her long ordeal since the USDA seized and sold 239 acres of family land. “My husband’s father died and they sold the land on the steps of the
courthouse,” she explained as she held an armful of folders. “I’ve been fighting since 1983. I’m 78 years old. It’s been a long time for me. I have enough evidence that it would take a truck to haul it away. I walked the halls of the Capitol Hill with (the late) John Boyd, going from office-tooffice.” In 2004, Congress asked Atchison to testify before a subcommittee. “They said my face was the face of the 66,000 black farmers who’d been denied and said my due process had been violated,” She recalled. “Congress called me as an expert eyewitness before them and a judge gave me standing in the court. I’m the most impacted but I haven’t been paid. They’re punishing me. We’re
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(from page 15) asking for justice not a set amount.” Atchison said she has a case on the docket that she filed in 2014. But, she says she and her colleagues have hit a brick wall. “It’s been 20 years that farmers have been saying that they’ve been mistreated and we’re still losing land,” said Gary R. Grant, president of the Black Farmers & Agriculturists Association & The Land Loss Fund. “Where we had one million farmers, that number is down to 20,000. Many farmers feel a sense of helplessness, a number are suffering from disease and health issues we’ve never dealt with such as diabetes and high blood pressure. They’re wiping us out. The land isn’t disappearing. It’s been stolen from us.” Grant said there has been no Congressional investigation into the assortment of alleged abuses by local farm service agencies. “Not a single employee at USDA has lost their job,” said Grant. “Between 1981 and 1996, 64 percent of black farmers have (disappeared) and only one person was forced to retire but with full benefits.” Repeated attempts to secure comments and reaction from the USDA were not successful. However, a 1994 USDA study examined the treatment of racial minorities and women as the agency was weathered allegations of pervasive racial discrimination in the way its employees handled applications for farm loans and grants to primarily Southern black farmers. Between 1990 and 1995, researchers found that “minorities received less than their fair share of USDA money for crop payments, disaster payments, and loans.” The final report noted that the USDA gave corporations 65 percent of loans, while 25 percent of the largest payments went to white male farmers. Further, 97 percent of disaster payments went to White farmers, with less than 1 percent reaching black farmers. The study highlighted “gross deficiencies” in the way the USDA collected and handled data which muddied the reasons for the discrepancies in treatment between black and white farmers in such a manner that the reasons couldn’t easily be determined. Carol Estes, in a story about the travails of black farmers in a Yes!
Eddie Slaughter Magazine article headlined, “Second Chance for Black Farmers,” details one of the many challenges. Estes reports, “The USDA does provide a remedy for farmers who believe they've been treated unfairly: They can file a claim with the agency’s civil rights complaint office in Washington, D.C.,” she said. “There’s a hitch, though. Ronald Reagan shut down that office in 1983, and the USDA never informed farmers. So for the next 13 years, until the office was reopened by the Clinton administration, black farmers’ complaints literally piled up in a vacant room in the Agriculture building in Washington.” The farmers who congregated in front of the Supreme Court cited figures ranging from 14,000 to 40,000 cases they say the USDA has failed to process. The official put in charge of unblocking the bottleneck is a part of the problem because he’s made no effort to facilitate the processing of the backed up claims, they charge. The farmers have received two settlements, Pigford I and II, class
action lawsuits which together have allocated about $2.25 billion to tens of thousands of black farmers. The first lawsuit was settled in April 1999 by US District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman. And in December 2010, Congress appropriated $1.2 billion for 70,000 additional claimants. The judgment was the largest civil rights settlement in this country’s history. While some see the settlement as a victory, for most black farmers it’s bittersweet because the settlement payments aren’t enough to buy farm equipment, give farmers long-term comfort; and in no way makes up for the destruction of rural black communities and the theft of land by government officials, they say. For example, the farmers detailed the travails of Eddie and Dorothy Wise, North Carolina farmers who were forced off their 106-acre farm in January by 14 heavily armed sheriffs and federal marshals. They said this happened without the couple being granted any hearing. Wise, a 67-year-old retired Green Beret and
his wife, a retired grants manager, lived on their farm for more than 20 years. After being evicted, the Wises lost their property and are living in a hotel. A GoFundMe page is soliciting help for the family. Supporters have raised $6,000 toward the $50,000 goal. “Nothing has been done to enhance the opportunities and fairness. What they’ve been doing is working to manipulate and separate the black farmer from his community where he lives, and critically himself,” said Grant. Lawrence Lucas, who worked with the federal government for 38 years, said little has changed at the agency. “There’s a reason why they call the USDA ‘the last plantation.’ The civil rights problems there have not been fixed,” said Lucas, president emeritus of the USDA Coalition of Minority Employees. “Ninety-seven percent of black farmers did not get the debt relief promised in the agreement. Things are not better, which is why we have to stand up.” The farmers said the White House, the U.S. Department of Justice, Congress, the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights leaders have done little to bring this long-running saga to a close. “Cases have not been processed and no investigation has been undertaken,” Lucas said. Oklahoma resident Muhammad Robbalaa said he was at the rally “because a fighter doesn’t quit.” He said, “I have an older brother who lost his land in 1983. He had a stroke after we fought a battle with the State Supreme Court,” said Robbalaa, 75. “They ruled that it was other folks land and they gave it to White folks. I’m still in the cattle business and my daughters have come back and joined the business. I originally owned 250 acres of land but now I’m on leased land.” Grant, Slaughter, Atchison and the other farmers said the government has colluded, nothing’s changed, they are further victimized and the land they own continues to be seized and stolen. “People think that Pigford and $50,000 settled all our issues, but it hasn’t. You can’t even buy a tractor with just that,” Grant said. “They continue to take and foreclose black farmers. The (lawsuit) assured us a hearing before foreclosure and that has not happened. All we want is justice and equality.”
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