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And running, running California Sen. Kamala Harris is running for president in 2020, joining an increasingly crowded field of Democrats seeking to challenge President Donald Trump.

She is a rising star in the party who was elected California's junior senator in 2016 after two terms as the state’s

Richmond & Hampton Roads

attorney general.

“I love my country. I love my country,” she said. “This is a moment in time that I feel a sense of responsibility to stand up and fight for the best of who we are.”

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A shutdown for the 99%, concierge services for the 1%

Cheryl Monroe, right, FDA employee, and Bertrice Sanders, a SSA employee, rally to call for an end to the partial government shutdown.

PHOTO: Paul Sancya EOIN HIGGINS The government shutdown is into its fifth week with no end in sight.

President Donald Trump started the crisis on Dec. 22 by refusing to sign a funding bill unless it contained money for his southern border wall.

A wide range of interests across the economic spectrum are jeopardized.

But not all interests are suffering equally: Wealthier and more powerful interest groups have been granted preference by the government.

Over Christmas, the shutdown threatened to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, from issuing flood insurance certificates. According to federal law, FEMA must provide flood insurance certifications before banks may issue federally backed mortgages to prospective homeowners living in federally designated floodplains — even in areas that FEMA has determined should not be built on due to high risk of flooding. The National Flood Insurance Program

of 1968 ensures that FEMA has the ability to issue and pay out claims for the insurance.

Without the certificates, roughly 40,000 closings a month would be at risk, resulting in millions in lost revenue for banks and mortgage companies. So it came as no surprise when interest groups successfully lobbied a bipartisan congressional cohort to temporarily reauthorize the NFIP through May on the eve of the shutdown. The stopgap bill was signed into law by Trump on

Dec. 21, hours before the federal government shuttered.

“There are 140 million Americans who live in coastal counties, millions of whom depend on this program to protect them from flood risk,” said former Rep. Tom MacArthur, a Republican from New Jersey who lost his seat in the midterm elections, during the brief House debate on the bill.

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No DACA amnesty but Trump signals support in broader deal Reuters - President Donald Trump said on Sunday his proposed immigration deal to end a 30-day partial government shutdown would not lead to amnesty for “Dreamers”, but appeared to signal support for amnesty as part of a broader immigration agreement.

In a morning Twitter storm, Trump also said he would not seek the removal of millions of illegal aliens living in the United States, while bashing House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for turning down his offer on Saturday.

“No, Amnesty is not a part of my offer. It is a 3-year extension of DACA. Amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal, whether on

immigration or something else,” Trump said on Twitter.“Likewise there will be no big push to remove the 11,000,000 plus people who are here illegally-but be careful Nancy!”

The Dreamers, which refers to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, are protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

DACA was put in place under former President Barack Obama.

The Trump administration said in September 2017 it would rescind DACA but it remains in effect under court order.

Trump did not make clear what he was referring to regarding the

11 million people mentioned in his tweet. About 12 million people are living in the United States illegally, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimates.

About one-quarter of the U.S. government shut down on Dec. 22 over Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to fund a wall along the border with Mexico, which Democrats have refused to consider. Some 800,000 federal workers have been ordered to stay home or work without pay during the shutdown.

On Sunday, there appeared to be signs of movement, even as Democrats insisted the government should reopen before proceeding with talks over border security.

“What the president proposed yesterday - increasing border security, looking at TPS, looking at the Dreamers - I’ll use that as a starting point. But you’ve got to start by reopening the government,” said U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) refers to another class of immigrants - nationals from designated countries affected by armed conflict, natural disaster, or other strife.

Warner said reopening ahead of border security negotiations was important for preventing future shutdowns.

“If the president can arbitrarily shut down the government now, he will do it time and again,” said Warner.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH A MARKET-BASED RATE SCHEDULE DESIGNATED RATE SCHEDULE MBR CASE NO. PUR-2018-00192 On December 11, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion” or “Company”) pursuant to § 56-234 A of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and Rule 80 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”) of the State Corporation Commission of Virginia (“Commission”), filed with the Commission an application to establish a new voluntary rate schedule, designated Rate Schedule MBR, Large General Service Market-Based Rate (“Application”). Through its Application, Dominion also seeks the Commission’s approval to close its existing market-based rate schedules to new customers upon the effective date of the new Rate Schedule MBR. According to the Application, Dominion’s existing MBR Schedules, Rate Schedule MBR—GS-3 (Experimental) and Rate Schedule BR—GS-4 (Experimental) (collectively, “Existing MBR Rate Schedules”) are structured to reflect market-based rate (“MBR”) pricing in the PJM Interconnection, LLC (“PJM”) wholesale market. The Existing MBR Rate Schedules are applicable to qualifying customers who would otherwise take service under Rate Schedule GS-3 or Rate Schedule GS-4. The Commission approved the Existing MBR Rate Schedules on September 23, 2016. The Existing MBR Rate Schedules became effective for usage on and after November 1, 2016. The Existing MBR Rate Schedules are set to expire on December 31, 2022.

Dominion states that the Company learned that the applicability provisions of the Existing MBR Rate Schedules are too restrictive and have precluded a number of interested customers from participating under these rate schedules. Dominion also states that the Company learned that customers want the Company’s market-based rates to represent more closely how generation demand and transmission service charges are addressed in the PJM wholesale market.

Through the Company’s Application, Dominion is thus seeking approval to establish a new voluntary non-experimental MBR rate schedule, designated Rate Schedule MBR, Large General Service Market-Based Rate (“New MBR Rate Schedule”). Dominion proposes to make the New MBR Rate Schedule available to qualifying customers who would otherwise take service under Rate Schedule GS-3 or Rate Schedule GS-4.

In response to customer feedback, the Company is proposing several changes from the Existing MBR Rate Schedules in the New MBR Rate Schedules, including: (i) improvement of the applicability and availability of the tariff; (ii) alignment of Generation Demand with the PJM method; (iii) alignment of transmission service charges with the PJM method; and (iv) lowering the Margin Charge. The Margin Charge is intended by Dominion to cover any differences between the Company’s MBR rate as designed and its actual marginal PJM costs to service individual customers, as well as to provide some contribution toward the Company’s administrative and fixed costs.

Consistent with the Existing MBR Rate Schedules, Dominion proposes a minimum three-year initial term. At the end of the initial term, a customer’s subscription would renew automatically for additional one-year terms, subject to the eligibility requirements therein.

Dominion is not proposing the New MBR Rate Schedules as an experimental tariff. Therefore, and among other things, the proposed New MBR Rate Schedule would not have an automatic end date. If the New MBR Rate Schedule is approved, Dominion seeks an order permitting the Company to amend the Existing MBR Rate Schedules to close them to new customers as of the effective date of the New MBR Rate Schedule.

Dominion states that the Company believes the proposed New MBR Rate Schedule is just, reasonable and in the public interest pursuant to Code § 56-234 A because the New MBR Rate Schedule contains market-based components that are closely aligned with the PJM wholesale market. In support of its proposed New MBR Rate Schedule, Dominion further states that the New MBR Rate Schedule is voluntary, and is proposed by Dominion in response to customer demand for MBR pricing. According to Dominion, the New MBR Rate Schedules allow for broader participation than would be available to existing and prospective customers who previously expressed an interest in market-based pricing, but did not qualify to take service under the Existing MBR Rate Schedules.

According to Dominion, the New MBR Rate Schedule would provide an avenue for the Company to compete with third-party suppliers of electric energy (competitive service providers “CSPs”) licensed to sell retail electric energy within the Commonwealth. Dominion asserts that permitting the Company to compete with CSPs is in the public interest. Dominion also asserts that when customers take electric energy supply from CSPs, they no longer share, with other Company customers, the cost of generation (including generation-related riders) and fuel. According to Dominion, the New MBR Rate Schedule would thus provide a competitive avenue that would permit the Company to service choice-eligible customers in a just and reasonable manner, in a way that would prevent what Dominion characterizes as the unjustified reallocation of generation and fuel costs to non-participants. Finally, Dominion asserts the New MBR Rate Schedule is in the public interest because it provides a long-term, market-based approach upon which customers could rely in making their long-term energy planning decisions. Such a long-term electric supply option, according to Dominion, creates business certainty for customers. Certainty for the Commonwealth’s larger, commercial and industrial businesses is in the public interest, according to Dominion, because it helps to foster a stable business environment in which entities can plan and grow.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Comment that, among other things, directed the Company to provide notice of its Application and provided interested persons an opportunity to comment or request a hearing on the Application.

Copies of the Application and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Comment may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for Dominion, David J. DePippo, 120 Tredegar Street, Riverside 2, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means. Copies of these documents also shall be available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center, located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

On or before March 26, 2019, any interested person may file with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, written comments on the Application. On or before March 26, 2019, any interested person desiring to submit comments electronically may do so by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. All comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00192.

On or before March 26, 2019, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All such filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00192. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Comment.

Any person may request a hearing on the Application by filing such request for hearing on or before March 26, 2019. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the request for hearing must be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. Requests for hearing shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00192 and shall include: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the filing party; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; (iii) a statement of the legal basis for such action; and (iv) a precise statement why a hearing should be conducted in this matter. Persons filing a request for hearing shall send a copy of the request to the Company’s counsel at the address set forth above.

All documents filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Comment may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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Making a Marc Hip-hop promoter, radio host and leader: Social work history’s unifying spirit casts him as an agent of change JULIE YOUNG A diminutive teen in an oversize T-shirt grins proudly from the front row of a 1993 group photo taken of participants in the Connections Institute, a program for emerging high school leaders created by an inclusive communities organization.

Marc Cheatham was just 14 and a rising sophomore at J. R. Tucker High School in Richmond when he was chosen by his school to attend the five-day summer workshop.

The organizer, known then as the National Conference of Christians and Jews and now as the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities, created the workshop to teach students to break barriers, to deal with biased behavior and to develop an action plan for reducing prejudice in their schools.

He didn’t know it at the time, but that summer experience would shape Cheatham’s future. Now 39, he says the lessons on inclusiveness

and diversity led him to Virginia Commonwealth University, where he majored in social work and received the VCU Alumni African-American Alumni Council Leadership Scholarship in 2003.

The man friends call “Cheats,” wearing a perpetual smile and backward baseball cap, has built a career around championing the underrepresented.

He is the Richmond-based director of constituent services and casework for Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., a “fixit” position. Cheatham has worked his way up in Kaine’s office since interning for the then-lieutenant governor of Virginia as a student, when the two hit it off immediately.

“I can honestly say if it weren’t for Tim Kaine, I probably wouldn’t work in politics,” Cheatham said. “I don’t like it that much. I like him that much, if that makes sense.”

But politics only nicks the surface of Cheatham’s commitment to his community. He lives near his

Marc Cheatham childhood neighborhood with his wife, Aria, and their 4-year-old son, Cameron.

Twenty-five years after that summer workshop, he still is active as an alumnus of the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities.

In 2011, the prolific writer, photographer and social media personality founded a blog, The Cheats Movement, which spotlights and promotes Richmond’s hiphop musicians, street artists and community cultural groups.

The goal of The Cheats Movement is to give a journalistic voice to urban culture, which had been largely ignored by mainstream media. Its catchphrase is #weseeit – “to let people know that I was seeing the things that they were doing differently,” Cheatham said. “I was seeing our community as a different place than what was being portrayed by our local news.”

And it’s caught on.

“The number of people who came up to me or followed the stuff that we do with the blog and said, ‘You know, you’re the only place that covers this,’ was kind of shocking and surprising and, honestly, disappointing when we look at how media coverage works. I started the blog as a way to highlight some of the things that we were seeing culturally in Richmond. It was a huge void. To an extent, it still is, but it’s gotten a lot better since 2011.”

The blog spawned a popular

podcast three years ago that was picked up as a biweekly daytime radio show, The Cheats Movement, on WRIR-FM 93.7. Cheatham got into his blog, podcast and radio show by talking about arts and culture but has moved on to weightier topics such as education, housing, child poverty and the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue in Richmond. Cheatham and cohost Gigi Broadway give voices to issues that otherwise might not be heard.

“We talk politics, education, we talk a lot of diversity and urban culture,” he says.

The spunky Cheats is an exemplary ambassador for the VCU African-American Alumni Council Leadership Scholarship, said Rodney A. Harry, president of the VCU Alumni African-American Alumni Council. The scholarship was created in 2002 to build leaders in the African-American student base at VCU, using alumni philanthropy to motivate them to achieve greatness. “He’s done so much,” Harry said. “He’s so active in the community, and he really seems to have a strong sense of wanting to move the community forward and bridge the gap between Richmond’s past and its future. He really represents what you would want this scholarship to do.”

In addition to financial aid, the scholarship gave Cheatham a boost in confidence and self-esteem. “The

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Second reading of bill to raise state minimum wage KAY DERVISHI CNS - The Virginia State Senate is scheduled to do a second reading of a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10 by July and incrementally increase it each year until it hits $15 in 2021.

“Be still my heart,” said Sen. Rosalyn Dance, D-Petersburg, the patron of SB1200, when the bill passed the Commerce and Labor committee 6-4 Jan. 14. Two Republicans, Sen. Tommy Norment, R-Williamsburg, and Sen. Frank Wagner, R-Virginia Beach, voted yes, surprising observers.

“Never say never,” said Anna Scholl, executive director of the advocacy group Progress Virginia. “I was certainly surprised to see Sen. Norment and Sen. Wagner support Sen. Dance’s bill in committee and we are eager to see them vote for it on the floor.”

The Virginia Mercury and the

Sen. Rosalyn Dance

Anna Scholl

Richmond Times-Dispatch have reported that some suspect the Republican votes were a maneuver to engineer a floor vote that may harm some state Senate Democrats.

The bill would increase the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10 in July, then $13 in 2020

and finally $15 in 2021. Dance has introduced similar legislation in previous sessions that did not make it out of committee.

“It’s a long way from start point to the end point so I am cautiously optimistic, but I will give it the fight of my life,” she said.

Both houses of the state legislature are narrowly controlled by a Republican majority that has traditionally opposed such increases to minimum wage.

Dance said that businesses concerned about accommodating the minimum wage would have time to adjust since the increase would be incremental.

“It’s a gradual shift that allows people to adjust to this,” Dance said in contrast, noting that laws are also often amended and could therefore execute laws at a slower or faster pace even after being passed.

The National Federation of Independent Business, an association for small businesses, opposes the bill.

“Especially for small business owners, and that’s who I represent, that tend to be less than 10 employees, you know even gradually that still puts a lot of pressure on their labor costs,” said Nicole Riley, the NFIB’s state director for Virginia. “And what you’re doing by raising the floor is raising the ceiling.”

Eric Terry, president of the Virginia Restaurant, Lodging & Travel Association, noted similar

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As part of the proposed 2019-2024 Local Plan for the Gifted, the Gifted Services Office is recommending that NNPS identify and serve gifted students in career and technical aptitude and visual and performing arts aptitude in grades three through five in a pull-out program model, beginning with the 20202021 school year.

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concerns, namely for tipped workers.

Although Dance’s bills does not removed tipped wages, businesses are responsible for covering the difference in minimum wage which may require those businesses to foot the bill.

“More than doubling the minimum wage is obviously a bit of a problem,” Terry said said.

Scholl with Progress Virginia emphasized the need for workers to see a raise in minimum wage.

“For too many Virginians, they are struggling to make ends meet at a minimum wage or just above minimum wage job,” Scholl said.

A poll by Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center for Public Policy in 2018 found that 74 percent of registered voters supported raising the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2020.

Virginia’s minimum wage has not increased since 2009, when the state matched the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

Virginia House Democrats said raising the minimum wage to $15 was a legislative priority in a news conference earlier this week, and delegates have introduced their own minimum wage legislation as well.

Del. Marcus Simon, D-Falls Church, introduced a bill that would raise the minimum wage more slowly over time, increasing it by $1.75 by July 2019 and gradually raising it until it would reach $15 in 2023. Another bill, introduced

by Del. Kenneth Plum, D-Reston, would increase the minimum wage to $10.10 by January 2020 and continue to adjust it after 2022 to reflect changes in the consumer price index. **** UPDATE: On Monday afternoon, MLK, Jr. Day, the state Senate voted down Sen. Rosalyn Dance’s SB1200, a bill that would have raised the minimum wage to $15 per hour. According to the Virginia for All of Us Campaign, both sen.

Siobhan Dunnavant and Glenn Sturtevant both put special interests ahead of their constituents and voted against the bill.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Shutdown is destroying America JEFFREY L. BONEY Imagine having to choose between paying your mortgage and picking up the much-needed prescription you need for your health crisis, because the job you report to and the federal resources you have relied on to live day to day are no longer available to you because of things beyond your control.

Choices like that, and many others, have been exactly what the approximately 800,000 federal workers, the roughly 4 million contractors and the countless number of low-income families who rely on the federal government, have had to deal with since the beginning of what has become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. This has been the third shutdown of the federal government since President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office.

As a result of this catastrophic and life-altering shutdown, so many people who have relied on the government for their livelihood have been severely impacted in a major way.

People have had their Medicare and Medicaid disrupted. The stock market has been volatile.

Federal workers have gone without paychecks and are in danger of losing everything they have worked so hard to attain to live the The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 5 No. 4 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

American dream. Safety has also become an issue.

Our food is not safe. As a result of the shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) immediately announced that most they had stopped most of their routine food safety inspections because staff had been working without pay. These inspections handled by the unpaid workers included things like doing safety inspections on foods that had been imported from overseas, dangerous recalls, foodborne illness outbreaks, and much more.

Our drugs are not safe. The FDA also stated that because of the shutdown, they don’t have the ability to review new drugs that could be beneficial in helping people get better until the government reopens.

Even our airports are not safe.

Just a few weeks ago, a passenger on Delta Air Lines who was traveling from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta to The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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Tokyo, Japan, informed authorities that he had inadvertently carried his loaded firearm through airport security and onto the plane.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirmed this and there are more concerns that unpaid TSA workers may not have the same level of focus due to the non-pay and many are not even reporting to work. Just this past week, the TSA checkpoint in Terminal B at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston was closed due to TSA agents calling in sick to protest the shutdown.

Things are getting more and more out of hand.

On top of the potential safety issues, the financial strain this shutdown is putting on the American people is devastating.

This government shutdown will also soon impact millions who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

SNAP, also known as food stamps, offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low-income individuals and families and provides economic benefits to communities. SNAP is the largest program in the domestic hunger safety net.

It has been unconscionable to witness the very people who have been elected to represent the American people, turn around and allow personal politics and political ideologies to severely hurt the American people after being voted to represent them as advocates, not enemies.

The longer this government shutdown continues, the more the American people will suffer and America as a whole will be at risk.

The American people must demand more from the elected officials who have been voted in to represent them and let them know that things have gone too far and must stop.

To hold the country hostage because Trump can’t get his beloved wall across the border, when he stated from the onset that he would make the country of Mexico pay for it, is unfair and disingenuous.

Subsequently, any elected official who cosigns with this mode of thinking and action is equally as irresponsible.

It is time for all elected officials to stop playing chicken with the American people’s livelihoods and stop playing the role of elected enemies to the people they are elected to serve.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Celebrating life

Born in Norfolk and raised by a single mother, I felt a special responsibility to go to college but, at first, I failed at it - quite literally.

But I turned my life around and see a pathway to success. Studying in London as a Frederick Douglass Global Fellow was instrumental in healing my wounds and making me whole again.

First enrolled as a college student at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., I left school my freshman year because it wasn’t a good fit for me. A year later, I transferred near home to a historically black college, Norfolk State University, but I abruptly left during my second semester when tragedy struck in a way that I could have never imagined.

In a scuffle on campus, one of my friends, Sean Williams, was tragically stabbed to death. Like me, Sean was a classically-trained vocalist. I was in such shock from his murder, I left school and didn’t even tell my teachers why.

I moved to Florida, where I fell in love and was blessed to have a son. I wanted to make a positive

future for my son, but I really didn’t know how. I thought about it long and hard and decided I wanted to be a lawyer in arts and entertainment.

I knew I needed to be in New York City. I knew I had to go back to school.

I got my transcripts. I put myself in a suit and put myself on a bus and, transcripts in hand, I went to the headquarters of City University of New York, CUNY. The admissions counselor opened up my transcripts and said, “Uhhhh....”

I said, “I know.” I had a 1.0 GPA. “These are the grades I have,” I told him. “I’m willing to start completely over.”

He said, “It’s going to be competitive,” but handed me a list of schools and I returned to Florida.

But I came back and wanted to attend the first school on the list, LaGuardia Community College in Queens, N.Y. I met with a counselor. She said, “These grades....”

I told her, “If I had known when I was just young what I know now, I would have done things differently. I just didn’t know. Unfortunately, this is what happened. I plan on being a lawyer.”

She asked: “You want to be a lawyer?”

I responded, “I will be a lawyer.”

She arched her eyebrows and said, “I like the way that you said that.”

She told me what I needed to do to be admitted: take a math and English entrance exam. I passed English, but failed math by two

points. I took a remedial math course, passed and was admitted.

I learned I loved math and started tutoring other students. I earned my associate’s degree in legal studies and received an invitation to join the President’s Society for students with excellent academic records. That’s right, I was invited. When I received the Frederick Douglass Fellowship, I called my mother to share the good news.

In London, though, as a Frederick Douglass Fellow, I felt like an outsider. I was older than the other students. I was a father. I came from a single-family household.

But I realized something profound in London. During a workshop, a videographer asked us, “Tell us a time when you had to face your privilege?”

The image of my friend, Sean, came to me. He was the motivating factor in my life. When my turn to speak arrived, I told the Fellows around me, “I lost a friend who never got to see his full potential. The biggest privilege I have is just being alive.

My friend died when he was 18.”

I broke down in tears. That was one of the first moments that my friend’s murder hit me. I told the Fellows: “You all just need to appreciate just being here. Just having breath in your lungs.”

We were all crying together. We were all celebrating life together. In that moment, I realized something beautiful and profound: our common humanity.

Peire Wilson

Tough questions

Part of Humankinds ability as being God’s “highest form of existence” is to be reasonable. I realize that everyone is reasonable to some degree, but most people should have learned enough to distinguish right from wrong.

In the “De-evolutionizing of America”, it is obvious that this is not so. The questions have arisen.

How do we reason with irrational people? How do we reason with selfish people? How do we reason with evil, wicked, and malicious people? How do we reason with people who insist on adulterating products provided to American consumers, especially innocent children? How do you reason with adults who think they have the right to castrate little boys? How do you reason with the greedy that will do anything for money? How do you reason with a psychotic, sociopath, a lunatic? How do you reason with the disillusioned? How do reason with people who insist on contributing to the destruction of others?

The only answer I can give besides ending some of their misery is to say: if it is important to the advancement of humankind, then it is worth the effort to reason with the unreasonable. Am I the only one who realizes this is where we are today? How can we enact authority figures to use reasoning to the extent of positively having the impact towards the most good?

Patrick Christian

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Exhibition celebrates early civil rights activists Civil rights activist Maggie L. Walker was known to say, “Have hope, have faith, have courage, and carry on.”

“Hope, Faith, and Courage: Early Civil Rights Leaders in Richmond”, a new exhibition opening at the University of Richmond Downtown, celebrates early civil rights activists in Richmond, Virginia including John Mitchell, Jr., Maggie L. Walker, James E. Jackson, Rosa Dixon Bowser, and Hezekiah F. Jonathan (pictured).

A special RVA First Fridays opening celebration will be held on Feb. 1, 5-7 p.m.

The exhibition will feature cut-paper portraits created by UR students in “Representing Civil Rights Richmond,” a first-year seminar taught by professors Laura Browder and Patricia Herrera, and Open High School students in U.S. history courses taught by Chad Ingold.

“Creating cut-paper portraits allowed students to honor the lives of these black community

leaders, which at times remain invisible,” said Herrera. “When we make the lives of these black leaders matter through different expressive mediums, be it through text, art, or performance, we move the social compass towards justice and equality.”

Students were guided through the portrait process by Jen Thomas, book arts program director at the University of Richmond’s Boatwright Library.

The exhibition is a companion exhibition to Growing Up in Civil Rights Richmond: A Community Remembers at UR’s Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art and The Afterlife of Jim Crow at 1708 Gallery. It will run Jan. 22 through March 22.

UR Downtown’s Wilton Companies Gallery, located at 626 E. Broad St., is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Database chronicles 400 years of Virginia House of Delegates

ROSEMARIE O'CONNOR

CNS — A singer crooned “La Paloma” as a Norfolk crowd showered two “legislative debutantes” with flowers and sent them off to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1924. Sarah Lee Fain and Helen T. Henderson were the first women elected to the General Assembly. To celebrate, the Democratic Women’s Club organized a bon voyage party at Roane’s Old Colonial Tea Room in Norfolk.

Virginians can now explore the history of who has served in the House, which is marking its 400th anniversary as America’s first lawmaking body. The House Clerk’s Office has launched an online database dubbed DOME (Database of House Members), chronicling the people elected to the House of Delegates or its predecessor, the House of Burgesses, over the past four centuries.

Set against today’s national conversation over gender equality, the database shows a stark disparity: It contains more than 9,000 men — but just 91 women.

Reflects state’s political players The ambitious, years-long project offers biographical and legislative information on every delegate as well as information on House speakers, clerks, legislative sessions and Capitol locations.

From 1619, when the House of Burgesses met in Jamestown, until 1923, the legislative body was allmale. Since Fain and Henderson joined the House in 1924, the number of female delegates didn’t crack double digits until 1983, when there were 11 women in the House.

The number stayed in the teens through 2017.

But that year, a record number of women were elected to the General Assembly, taking 11 seats formerly held by men. As a result, 28 women currently serve in the 100-member House.

Glass ceilings, then color barriers Sixty years after Henderson and Fain shattered the glass ceiling,

Yvonne Miller of Norfolk (pictured) broke the color barrier.

She became the first AfricanAmerican woman elected to the House in 1984 and the first elected to the Senate four years later. Miller died in office in July 2012.

In an interview with the Library of Virginia, Miller said other legislators initially thought she was a maid and told her as much. She said she realized those delegates who offended her were “operating on their history.” Miller said she had to figure out how to interact with those who did not respect her simply because of her race.

Miller called her time in the General Assembly exciting and said she thoroughly enjoyed politics.

“I have enough wins to keep it interesting,” she said. “I have a lot of losses to keep me humble.”

‘Long overdue’ project may inspire Laura van Assendelft, a professor of political science at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, called the DOME project “long overdue.”

“The typically limited and inconsistent availability of data at the state and local levels is such a source of frustration for scholars in the state and local subfield,” she said. Van Assendelft said she believes the database will inspire more research into the history of women in Virginia’s government.

Brian Daugherity, a U.S. history professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, said that when completed, DOME will help citizens “see the ways in which participation in the state’s decision-making processes has expanded over time — a reminder of the importance of ensuring access for all.”

G. Paul Nardo, the clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates, said he welcomes contributions from the

public to help write the “ongoing history of the House of Delegates and those who have been elected to serve in it.” He said the database will be officially released this spring.

More women and more diversity The history of women in Virginia politics is still being written.

“But if I do anything worthwhile in the General Assembly,” Fain declared in 1924, “to the women will belong the credit.”

In 2017, the House of Delegates saw an increase not only in the number

of women but also in other diversity.

Danica Roem of Prince William County became Virginia’s first transgender legislator. Hala Ayala and Elizabeth Guzman also won House seats in Prince William County, becoming the first Latinas elected to the House.

Kathy Tran’s win in Fairfax County made her the first AsianAmerican woman to serve in the Virginia General Assembly. And Dawn Adams of Richmond was elected as the first openly lesbian legislator.

Newport News receives state Workforce Development Grant The city of Newport News has been awarded a grant through the Virginia Department of Social Services’ Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to increase workforce development activities in the Southeast area of the city. The $896,802 grant will support accessible workforce and training services at the Brooks Crossing Innovation and Opportunity Center, a new workforce center opening in the spring of 2019. After the initial 18 months of the grant, four additional funding years are guaranteed. This grant was created at the request of Virginia First Cities, a coalition of Virginia cities that advocates for increased collaboration and enhanced policies from the state.

To facilitate this grant, the city’s Department of Development will work with the Hampton Roads Community Action Program, the Greater Peninsula Workforce Board, and Peninsula Regional Education Programs. The city will also partner with employers, nonprofits and faith-based organizations to offer citizens customized, flexible, comprehensive, and innovative approaches to career awareness, skill development, wealth-building, supportive services, and integrated case management support.

“We are pleased that the commonwealth recognizes the importance of investing in workforce

training for our citizens,” said Newport News Mayor McKinley L. Price. “This grant allows Newport News residents to earn industry certificates and credentials and many will leave the program with guaranteed jobs with our partners.

Not only will our residents benefit, but our community and the economy will grow thanks to this generous TANF grant.”

Through this grant, the city is looking to serve 110 participants (90 adults and 20 youth) in the first 18 months. Participants will have the opportunity to earn credentials and higher education certificates and/ or degrees. Participants will also benefit from on-the-job training, internships, GED support, preregistered apprenticeships, skills training, and other workforce development services. The program will offer a minimum of four unique certificates, including Northstar Digital Literacy, Workplace Excellence Series, Career Readiness Certificates and OSHA-10.

This grant is part of the Virginia First Cities TANF Grant program, which is designed to support programs that end the cycle of poverty. Newport News’ application entitled “Navigating Wealth-Building for the Residents of the Marshall-Ridley Choice Neighborhood” complements the city’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.

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Bill aims to protect youth from ‘seedy’ businesses Del. Roslyn Tyler, D-Jarratt, said that she hadn’t taken a position on the bill.

“However, I do believe once an individual is an adult at the age of 18 that they have the right to make choices for themselves and held accountable for their decisions,” she said.

MOLLY BRIND'AMOUR CNS - A bill proposed by Del. Mark Cole that would prohibit “sexually-oriented businesses” from employing people under the age of 21 awaits discussion in a key house subcommittee.

If passed, the bill – HB1825 - would penalize strip clubs and similar establishments that have performers or employees above the age of 18 but below the age of 21.

“I think raising the age to what is already the legal drinking age is a reasonable step,” said Cole, R-Fredericksburg.

“With the internet, photos or videos of someone employed in this type of business will never go away.

Raising the age to 21 means that a person will have more time and maturity before making a decision that will follow them for the rest of

(from page 4) feeling was a giant sense of pride,” he said.

“As an African-American on any college campus, I think it’s important to look for identity, it’s important to look for a sense of belonging. I remember having a really strong sense of pride to call and be able to tell my parents, my loved ones, that I was the winner of that particular scholarship.”

Linnie Carter, Ph.D. was president of the AAAC when the scholarship was created and is a leadership scholarship donor. “Marc Cheatham is a living and breathing example of our hope and vision for the AAAC Leadership Scholarship,” says Carter, vice president of college advancement at HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College. “We need more AfricanAmerican leaders in Richmond, the commonwealth of Virginia and the United States – in all sectors.”

This year, Cheatham, who served in the Marines before enrolling at VCU, was invited to participate in the AAAC Mentoring Circle, a program to connect VCU’s

Sex workers across the country have protested similar bills.

their life and that they may regret.”

African-American undergraduates with alumni who have shared professional interests. The mentors help open doors to internships, apprenticeships or employment opportunities.

“It’s a great, great source of pride to be able to tell my mentee through this program that, ‘Hey, I was where you were,’” Cheatham said.

He also serves on the advisory board of the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. “There are so many opportunities for alumni to get connected back to the university, even if you’ve been away for a long time,” he says.

Beth Angell, dean of the School of Social Work, admires Cheatham’s capacity for civic engagement.

“This is an enormous source of pride for us,” Angell said. “By giving to scholarships, donors send students the signal, ‘I believe in you.’ That confidence that we give through those gifts has ripple effects on the rest of society, because a student like Marc goes on to make a mark on the world. We’re just so grateful to the African-American Alumni Council for their support and recognition of Marc.”

Shannon Garcia, a 23-year-old who works as a server, bartender and door girl at Papermoon Downtown, a strip club in Richmond, said she sees both sides of the bill.

“I see why it’d be a good idea,” Garcia said. “Some of the guys wanna buy you a drink and you can’t drink.”

But Garcia said that some people might not like it, people who are under 21 and still want to work.

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In Virginia, class 4 misdemeanors are punishable by a fine of no more than $250.

In December, sex workers gathered in Baton Rouge to protest a similar bill that would take effect that month. The Louisiana law effectively bars women under 21 from stripping by restricting which body parts can be exposed in clubs that serve alcohol.

Adult actress Stormy Daniels, who joined the protest, decried the law as “sexist,” claiming that it limited women’s freedom of expression and unfairly targeted female dancers.

Cole said he considered the Virginia age restriction “reasonable” because people between the ages of 18 and 20 still cannot legally drink.

But Cole hasn’t organized for any further limits on these establishments, beyond HB 1825, which has been assigned to a house Courts of Justice subcommittee.

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On ‘The Daily Show,’ local professor talks ‘Thick,’ why she’s done code switching, and the joys of being petty

Tressie McMillan Cottom and Trevor Noah on the set of the Daily Show.

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology in the College of Humanities and Sciences, was interviewed last week on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” about her critically acclaimed new book, “Thick: And Other Essays.”

Cottom’s book, published this month by The New Press, is a nuanced and multifaceted portrayal of the experience of black womanhood, exploring topics including beauty, media, money and pop culture.

Noah, who last interviewed Cottom in 2017 about her previous book, “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” called “Thick” an “amazing book by an amazing woman.”

In last week’s interview, Noah asked Cottom what she aimed to accomplish in writing “Thick,” a term he noted encompasses personality, body and “all the ideas that go into what society perceives black women to be or what she should be.” “‘Thick’ was the last essay I wrote in this book.

When we titled it, it all sort of came together for me,” Cottom said. “There’s this theme running through the history of black women’s experience of this country, and of the world, that is about us being nuanced, and sometimes too nuanced,

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(from page 12) for the world to perceive us as we perceive ourselves.

“And it was in that nuance where I wanted people to get comfortable.

We’re not usually very comfortable in places where we don’t have easy black-and-white answers. And this book is about complicating all of that, but in a way that centers the experiences of black women as being human experiences, which is what I thought — if there is any contribution by this book — it is that.”

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Daily Show Noah asked Cottom why she chose to write “Thick” as an eight-essay collection rather than one long book. She responded that she didn’t think one long book would be able to encapsulate all dimensions of black womanhood: “Oddly enough, essays are a better approach because you can take these slices of our life,” she said. “And you run this risk [with one long book] of people thinking that this is a definitive book on what it is to be a black woman.

“So one of the things that happens when you’re a black woman and you have some public personality, you become everybody’s black friend who doesn’t have an actual black friend.

“I didn’t want to give the impression that by reading one definitive text about black women that you knew everything there was

“Black women always have a right to be heard.” to know about black women.

“What this does instead is give you a slice of life and the thinking and philosophy of black womanhood as I understand it. Not just as someone who has lived it and experienced it, but as someone who has studied it and thought about it at these different levels. So essays allow me to sort of slice those sections of our life experiences off in a way that I think a single narrative wouldn’t allow me to do.”

Noah also asked about Cottom’s opinion in “Thick” that major media publications have not done enough to hire black women, particularly on the opinion pages.

“You talk in the book about how publications, for instance, don’t hire enough black women as voices to constantly contribute,” he said.

“They just want to jump in and

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Black lady, can you jump in and write this for us? But we’re not going to hire you permanently.’ Why do you think that’s so important in the conversations that America has in and around its politics or social issues?”

“It’s important on a couple of levels,” Cottom said. “It’s important to black women because we deserve it, right? If you have earned a spot to contribute to the public discourse, then you should be at publications that help shape that kind of discourse. Our opinion pages — those mastheads — as much as we like to think that they no longer matter, indeed in the age of social media they may matter more, and not less. Because we tend to turn to the publications that we trust more when news becomes more difficult to trust. If those are going to be the publications that we trust, it should like the people whose trust we are asking for. So that’s one reason.

“And the other reason is that I believe the philosophy that black women have developed over hundreds of years says as much about black womanhood as it does about everyone else’s experiences.

And, frankly, I just think we’re smarter if we listen to black women.

“It’s not to say that black women are always right. But black women do always have a right to be heard.

And when you don’t model what it means to take black women seriously in our public discourse, it reinforces the idea that people don’t have to take it seriously.”

Cottom was also asked about her discussion in “Thick” related to how she undertakes “small and meaningful protests” in her life, notably including a refusal to code switch.

“You say … ‘I’m going to be the blackiest black that I can be.’ That’s a really interesting idea,” Noah said.

“Why do you think it’s important to do that? Do you think code switching reinforces the stereotypes that people have about black people?

So they go, ‘Oh, you sound more white. Ergo, whiteness is associated with smartness.’ And then you go, like, ‘No, I’m going to be as black as you think a black person can be while still maintaining that level of intelligence.’”

Cottom replied: “Code switching is a marvelous cultural tradition and I love it. I love that I’m able to do it. I also love that I’m able to choose not to do it. What I am doing when I do it is I am acknowledging the fact that I have achieved certain status symbols that we tend to associate with people who don’t look like me.

“And I want to make people uncomfortable with the fact that they are uncomfortable with me.

Reconcile the fact that if you think I am anything worthwhile — intelligent or attractive or important — I want them to reconcile that with the fact that I sound like I sound, I look what I look like, and I am what I am.”

Noah also asked Cottom about a part in “Thick” where her favorite used bookstore took her purse while browsing out of fear that she would steal.

“Do you ever feel the urge to go back to that bookstore, like, ‘I’m here to sign my own [book] now?’”

Noah asked.

“We have a word for that,” Cottom said, “and that’s called being petty.

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Bill would exempt mentally ill from death penalty JAYLA MARIE McNEILL CNS -- A Senate committee has agreed to advance a bill that would protect individuals with a severe mental illness from the receiving the death penalty.

On a recent 8-6 vote, the Senate Courts of Justice Committee approved SB 1137, which states that “a defendant in a capital case who had a severe mental illness as defined in the bill, at the time of the offense is not eligible for the death penalty.”

The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Barbara A. Favola, D-Arlington, is was considered by the full Senate last week.

The bill would establish procedures for determining mental illness (such as expert evaluators), would require judges and juries to take illness into account in sentencing procedures and would mandate that it is the responsibility of the defendant to prove his severe mental illness by a “preponderance of evidence.”

Under current Virginia law, the jury can take mental illness into consideration when deciding to apply

Sen. Barbara A. Favola the death penalty. This bill aims to remove the option of the death penalty for those with a proven severe mental illness.

“This is really a sentencing bill,” said Favola. “It doesn’t say that the person would have to be ruled not guilty.”

Thirty states have the death

Va. advocates seek more access to medical marijuana CNS — As other states have relaxed their laws against marijuana, citizens across Virginia gathered together Saturday to discuss how to persuade the General Assembly to legalize medical and recreational marijuana in the commonwealth.

About 150 people, including health care providers and attorneys, attended the Virginia 2019 Cannabis Conference, held by the Virginia chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Virginia NORML advocates decriminalizing possession of marijuana and regulating medical and recreational-use production and sales of the substance.

Members of NORML are hopeful

after Gov. Ralph Northam voiced support for decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana during his recent State of the Commonwealth address, the first day of the General Assembly’s 2019 session.

“We want to keep people safe.

But we shouldn’t use valuable law enforcement time, or costly prison space, on laws that don’t enhance public safety,” the governor said in his speech. “Current law imposes a maximum 30 days in jail for a first offense of marijuana possession.”

So far, lawmakers have proposed six bills to decriminalize simple marijuana possession. For example, HB 2371, sponsored by Del. Steve Heretick, D-Portsmouth, and HB

penalty. According to the Death Penalty information Center, Virginia carried out the second highest number of executions, 113, since 1976, coming in second to Texas, which carried out 558 executions.

In 2017, Virginia executed two inmates and has three prisoners on death row.

“The U.S Supreme Court over time has issued decisions that really talk about culpability and the fact that the death penalty should only be applied when an individual has full understanding of his actions and consequences,” Favola said.

In the 2002 case of Atkins v.

Virginia, the court maintained that the legal execution of defendants with intellectual disabilities was unconstitutional. In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled in Roper v.

Simmons that applying the death penalty to defendants 18 years of age or younger was “cruel and unusual punishment” and therefore prohibited by the U.S Constitution.

However, there is no federal law or ruling that extends that protection to individuals who have been deemed to have a severe

mental illness, despite pressure from medical associations and human rights groups.

Mental illness “is a whole category that has never really been dealt with by the courts and needs to be dealt with by this legislation,” Sen. John Edwards, D–Roanoke, told the Courts of Justice Committee. “I think this is an important bill.”

Organizations supporting the legislation included the Virginia Catholic Conference, the National Alliance of Mental Illness, the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, Mental Health America of Virginia and the Disability Law Center of Virginia.

Speaking in opposition to the bill was John Mahoney of the Virginia Association of Commonwealth Attorneys. Mahoney said the measure is equivalent to “attacking the death penalty from the sides” and would “take things out of the hands of the jury.”

“We see this as making cases unendable,” Mahoney said. “The whole focus, then, is going to be mental health and what is a mental illness.”

2373, by Del. Lee Carter, D-Prince William, would legalize marijuana for Virginians 21 and older and have the state operate retail marijuana stores. Under such proposals, Virginians under 21 who are caught with marijuana would have to pay a civil penalty.

Most attendees at the conference, held at the Delta by Marriott hotel, seemed particularly interested in medical marijuana and how to access it without traveling to another state.

Lorene Davidson of Richmond works in anesthesia as a nurse practitioner. She came to the conference because of her ongoing struggle with antidepressants, which she found were bad for her liver.

“I’m looking mostly for a way to find out more about getting a medical card and furthering getting that taken care of,” Davidson said.

As a speaker at the event, Melanie Seifert Davis of Richmond shared the story of her 10-year-old daughter Madison, who was diagnosed with ependymoma brain cancer in 2014.

“Although I’m not new to the world of cannabis, I’m brand new to the world of cannabis reform,” Davis said.

Madison is on four different cannabis-based products including CBD, THC, THCA and FECO (full extract cannabis oil) to help with seizures and the cancer itself, Davis said.

“Today and for every tomorrow I’m given, I will fill seven capsules with high doses of four different cannabis medications and watch as Madison swallows each one,” Davis said.

“Science, research and experience in my heart all know that it can and will and has helped her.”

At the conference, Davis said the

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Lawmakers seek information on prisoner segregation CNS — Lawmakers and prison reform advocates are pushing three bills through the General Assembly that would force the Virginia Department of Corrections to track and share records of inmates in solitary confinement.

Virginia is one of seven states that do not require record keeping for segregated prisoners. Del. Patrick Hope, D-Arlington, has introduced a bill that would require DOC to annually submit data reports to the General Assembly and governor regarding the length of confinement, inmate demographics and disability treatment. Hope said the bill would increase transparency and improve inmate mental health care.

“We need to make sure as policymakers we have all the information we can possibly have in order to deal with solitary confinement and make sure those in there are not suffering needlessly,” Hope said.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia published a report in 2018 revealing that more than 800 Virginian inmates live in restrictive housing, for an average of 2.7 years, where they are isolated in their cells for 22-24 hours each day. After a Washington Post article published last month highlighted Virginia’s lack of prisoner data filings, human rights advocates are demanding justice.

Rhonda Thissen, executive director of the National Alliance of Mental Illness of Virginia, said prolonged segregation of prisoners can cause deterioration of mental health.

Without facilities tracking the data on segregated prisoners, Thissen said, there is minimal chance of healthy recovery and release.

“The reality is, for people with existing mental illness, it exacerbates their mental illness, and people who have no pre-existing mental illness develop symptoms of mental illness,” Thissen said.

“We would like to know the status of these individuals so we know their needs are being appropriately addressed.”

The DOC has stated that solitary confinement is not widely used in Virginia prisons. However, ACLU-VA and NAMI Virginia advocates said at a press conference Thursday that prisoners can be detained in solitary confinement for years. Moreover, they said the Administrative Segregation Step Down Program that inmates go through after being in restricted housing is biased against inmates.

At the news conference, David Smith said he served 16½ months in solitary confinement in the Norfolk city jail for child pornography. Smith recalled meeting an inmate who had been placed in solitary confinement for having too many stamps, which

were considered contraband.

Another inmate went into restrictive housing for defending himself from sexual assault, Smith said. Without records of these inmates, Smith said, their truths are buried.

“These are just anecdotes. Without the numbers, how do we know the truth? That’s the point of this legislation, just so we can get that understanding of what’s happening in our prisons and what we can do better,” Smith said.

State Sen. Adam Ebbin, D-Alexandria, visited Red Onion State Prison in Wise County in 2011 to evaluate the correctional facility and said the conditions for solitary

confinement were miserable.

Ebbin and Hope said passing legislation to reduce segregating inmates has been difficult because of the constantly changing language: It can be called segregation, solitary confinement or restrictive housing.

Ebbin said choosing one term and sticking to it is important in crafting legislation, helping current inmates and improving the prison system.

“We want to know how we’re doing in Virginia with an eye toward moving into punishment that is not overly punitive and not one that leads to mental illness even more for those who are incarcerated,” Ebbin said.

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son about today, the first thing he said with legitimate fear in his voice was, ‘Mom, you can’t tell them those things. You can’t tell Del. Lee Carter them about Maddie’s medicine. Cannabis is illegal. I need you; you can’t go to jail,’” Davis said.

Madison has been on cannabis products since June 2017. Davis said she gets Madison and Aiden’s

cannabis from a licensed doctor in California.

Jenn Michelle Pedini, the executive director for Virginia NORML, said progress had been made in getting the state to expand access to medical cannabis.

According to the Virginia Board of Pharmacy, patients and their legal guardians can register to obtain such products if they have a certification issued by a physician.

“In 2016, we passed a bill that let us go forth and write a regulatory program that was based on Connecticut’s then-program, which was also low-THC, extraction-based products only and served to a small set of patients,” Pedini said.

In 2018, the General Assembly passed a law allowing practitioners to issue certifications for the use of cannabis-based products to alleviate symptoms “of any diagnosed condition or disease determined by the practitioner to benefit from such use.”

The Board of Pharmacy has given approval to pharmaceutical companies to open five dispensaries across the state where CBD and THC-A oils will be sold to authorized patients.

Del. Glenn Davis, R-Virginia Beach, has filed a bill (HB 2245) to double the number of medical cannabis dispensaries.

family recently received good news about Madison’s cancer: Four of the five tumors were gone.

“Cannabis is an important and essential part of why she is still here and still her, five years into this battle for her life,” Davis shared.

“Cannabis is why she has never, not even once, suffered from the nausea, vomiting or seizures that are expected side effects of her chemo.”

Not only does Davis’ daughter suffer from cancer, but her son, Aiden, has Crohn’s disease. Aiden also uses cannabis to ease the pain of everyday life, Davis said.

“I fight because when I told my

State Sen. Adam Ebbin, left, visited Red Onion State Prison.

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