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• Push to honor black soldiers in RVA - 2 • Caucus on black maternal deaths - 4 • Company to pay for alleged violations- 13 • Local response to COVID-19 crisis - 15

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Being poor amid COVID-19 outbreak

VM - Demetrice Taylor works as a clerk at 7-Eleven in downtown Richmond, but with schools around the state closed for at least two weeks, she said that’s about to change.

“Yeah I’m quitting,” she said as she walked down the street with her 4-year-old daughter who attends a public pre-school, “because my kids come first.”

Her job provides no paid sick days, no family leave and no alternative to care for her daughter, she said.

And she’s not alone.

With a viral pandemic set to disrupt daily life around Virginia, advocates are issuing urgent calls for state and local officials to step in to protect low-income, homeless and disabled Virginians who they say are least equipped to safely weather the growing crisis.

They’re asking for a statewide moratorium on evictions, foreclosures, utility cut-offs and collections actions, including by hospitals. For those who already homeless, they’re asking for additional support and shelter.

How can a person evicted from their home over nonpayment of rent be expected to quarantine themselves, asked Martin Wegbreit, the director of litigation at the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society.

‘Low-income people need to selfquarantine, too’ “People who are feeling sick,” he

the Legal Aid Justice Center, which advocates for low-income residents around the state.

The organization is in the process of preparing wide-ranging policy recommendations for state and local leaders.

said, “they need to stay in place.

You’ve got senators, basketball players, actors self-quarantining.

Low income people need to selfquarantine, too. And they can’t.”

The dilemma is more than a hypothetical in Virginia, home to five of the 10 top evicting large cities in the country, and the threat isn’t limited to people who think they’re getting sick.

Advocates said they support Gov. Ralph Northam’s decision Friday to order schools around the state closed, but note it leaves workers scrambling for alternative childcare.

If they can’t find it, many will be out

of a paycheck and, potentially, out of a job. Just a third of the lowest paid workers in the country have paid sick or leave benefits, according to the Department of Labor.

They also worry about how children will get fed in low-income communities, where many families rely on free breakfast and lunches served at school.

“People are already living paycheck-to-paycheck in a world without affordable housing and cannot be expected to stay healthy and care for children and aging relatives while also working to pay rent,” said Angela Ciolfi, director of

Regulators asked to halt utility cut-offs Advocates say they’re encouraged by some of the responses they’ve seen so far, but they say more drastic action is necessary.

Attorney General Mark Herring filed an emergency petition late Friday with state regulators that would bar all electric, gas and water providers from disconnecting customers for the duration of the state of emergency declared by Northam this week.

“A temporary suspension of disconnections is especially important for hourly wage earners who are most likely to lose income as a result of business closures and social distancing efforts,” Herring said in a statement.

Moments later Dominion Energy, the state’s largest electric utility, announced it had voluntarily ended utility cutoffs.

In Richmond, Mayor Levar Stoney’s administration reached out to the legal aid community seeking advice for how to respond.

He quickly acted on one of their recommendations, announcing

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‘A more complete story’: Push to honor black soldiers on Richmond’s Monument Avenue gathers steam not only as a symbol, but also as a transmitter, much like the radio that came decades later.

By the end of the Battle of New Market Heights, Confederate forces had conceded the territory to the USCTs. Less than seven months later, General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

Though historians debate the significance of the battle from a tactical standpoint, few argue that it marked a turning point for African Americans.

“This was the opening salvo. This was the fight for civil rights. The [U.S.] Colored Troops were up to the Company E, of the 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, is pictured at Fort Lincoln in Washington, D.C. The regiment fought at the Battle of New Market Heights outside of Richmond. PHOTO: Library of Congress VM - Powhatan Beaty was born enslaved in Richmond. He fought for freedom just outside the city in the final days of the Civil War. Soon he, along with other black Union soldiers, could be commemorated on Monument Avenue, in the former capital of the Confederacy, alongside statues of the slaveholders who lost.

Beaty is one of 14 AfricanAmerican veterans who received the Medal of Honor for guiding and rallying their comrades, then known as the United States Colored Troops, in the Battle of New Market Heights. A group of politicians and historians are pushing to see them memorialized on a road that divides Richmond.

And as the city considers putting a new monument up, state legislators have moved to make it easier for localities to take others down.

On the foggy morning of Sept.

29, 1864, Beaty and his comrades crossed the James River and

advanced uphill towards rebel fortifications that ran along what’s now Route 5 in Henrico County. The terrain was difficult and littered with trees the Confederates had cut down as obstacles for the Union troops. The relatively inexperienced USCTs were up against brigades of seasoned veterans.

“The slaughter from Confederate lines was just absolutely brutal,” said Michael Knight, a specialist in 19th century African American military history and archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Bodies fell fast, becoming yet another barrier on the bloodied field.

But soldiers like Beaty, a sergeant, rallied their exhausted comrades — his Medal of Honor citation says he “took command of his company, all the officers having been killed or wounded, and gallantly led it” — and kept the flag flying. That was major in the 19th century, Knight said, because the colors functioned

challenge,” Knight said.

Knight is part of a group that’s set out to change the enduring Lost Cause narrative in Richmond by building the first statue of black Civil War veterans on Monument Avenue. The road is a National Historic Landmark lined with five Confederate memorials built in the Jim Crow era.

Joining Knight on the board of the Honor the 14 Foundation is Richmond City Councilwoman Kim Gray, whose district includes part of Monument Avenue. In

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(from page 1) and others are simply asking people the city would stop disconnecting residents’ water for non-payment.

To keep kids fed, the city’s superintendent pledged to keep school kitchens open and said the district is working on meal delivery options for people unable to leave their homes.

Charlottesville’s public housing authority announced Friday it would suspend evictions.

But advocates say more drastic steps are necessary and that other cities and states are already implementing them. New York State’s legislature is weighing legislation to ban evictions across the state during the outbreak. Kentucky put such proceedings on hold by default amid a broader decision to limit court hearings to exceptional cases that demand immediate action.

Courts implement ‘liberal continuance policies’ So far, the state court system in Virginia has responded on an adhoc basis, with some local courts announcing what they’re describing as “very liberal continuance policies”

who are not a party to or witness in a case being heard to stay home. The Supreme Court of Virginia and Court of Appeals announced their building in downtown Richmond is closed to the public until further notice.

Meanwhile, the patchwork of organizations that serve the homeless is scrambling to figure out how they can continue to provide support. In Richmond, the city’s emergency shelter is closed for the summer and permanent shelter space is always scarce.

Organizations that provide free meals say they’re not yet sure how to proceed.

Centenary United Methodist Church in downtown Richmond, which serves hot lunch to the homeless every Friday, has closed its offices and cancelled services. It still opened to serve food, but instead of opening their parish hall they took the precaution of handing out boxed meals at the door.

What will next week look like?

“We don’t know exactly yet,” said Rev. Matt Bates. “We hope we will have a way to serve.”

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Study seeks to document history of national park segregation and its lasting effects That evidence of segregation is right in front of park visitors all over Virginia, it’s just a matter of seeing it. “There are some picnic tables that are in an open meadow and there are other picnic tables that are in a shaded wood,” Devlin notes. “And that is a product of, in some cases, this legacy of planning for segregation and that there was a desire to tuck away African-

JAHD KHALIL Evidence of the legacy of segregation in Virginia’s national park sites is hidden in plain sight.

Now, a study of how parks were segregated is looking at how the park service can highlight that history to campers and hikers. It will also try to determine if history has something to do with how different groups are represented in park visitorship.

At Shenandoah National Park’s visitor center, you’ll walk through exhibits featuring local folk songs, the park’s founding, and its role in the new deal. But you’ll also find an exhibit that explores one of the uglier parts of the park’s history.

Claire Comer points out one indicator. “This is a map that’s from that era. And as you can see right here is Lewis Mountain is is denoted and under Lewis Mountain is the word colored and it’s circled in red ink,” she notes. That red circle was to tell African-Americans that while

in Shenandoah National Park, they had to stay at the Lewis Mountain campground.

Claire Comer is the interpretive specialist at the park, and helped create this exhibit after a series of oral history interviews in 2007. But the park wants to go further. “We felt like the work that had been done so far stopped short of really establishing a national context for the story. And we really feel like it has a national context,” Comer says.

The regional office of the National Park Service cooperated with the Organization of American Historians to commission a historical resource study. Erin Devlin is a history professor at University of Mary Washington. She’s poured over planning documents, blueprints, and maps in the hopes of understanding how segregation was implemented at the park. She’s built a whole filing cabinet full of sources. One drawer holds documents relevant to the state of Virginia, which resisted federal efforts to desegregate.

American visitors in quiet corners of the parks.”

Today race still affects the way Americans, specifically black Americans, experience being outside.

“The outdoors had been a hostile place, kind of known as a hostile place for for for African-Americans,” says David Lynch, a graduate assistant at Virginia Commonwealth

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Black Maternal Health Caucus unveil historic legislative package to address America’s black maternal health crisis Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) recently joined fellow U.S. representatives Lauren Underwood (IL-14) and Alma Adams (NC12), as well as U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), and members of the Black Maternal Health Caucus to introduce a historic legislative package to address the United States’ urgent maternal health crisis. The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2020 will build on existing maternal health legislation by filling gaps through nine new bills to comprehensively address every dimension of the black maternal health crisis.

“As a father to two young women, Virginia’s black maternal health crisis is a deeply personal matter of life and death. The disparities are unacceptable, and Congress must

Rep. A. Donald McEachin support evidenced-based solutions to fix them,” said McEachin, an original co-sponsor of the legislation.

“If we’re going to save our moms, we have to center the voices of the women most affected by the crisis

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(from page 2) December 2019, Gray proposed a resolution to enlist support for the initiative from Mayor Levar Stoney’s administration.

“Those troops won Medals of Honor for their valor and it was a very significant battle in the Civil War. … It’s appropriate to honor our troops, and Union soldiers, I think, are an interesting twist to Monument Avenue,” said Gray, who also announced last month that she would challenge Stoney in the mayoral election this fall.

Her colleagues in City Council unanimously approved the measure in January.

The resolution also asks Stoney to allocate $5,000 for start-up costs, a number that Gray said would reflect a symbolic blessing from the city. The project is expected to cost approximately $5 to 10 million.

Commemorating formerly enslaved people and black veterans was among the recommendations made by the Monument Avenue Commission in 2018. The group was formed at the behest of Stoney in June 2017, two years after a white supremacist who embraced symbols of the Confederacy massacred nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. The recommendations came less than a year after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where white nationalists waving the rebel flag protested the city’s motion to take down a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was there that a domestic terrorist mowed down a group of counterprotesters and murdered Heather Heyer.

The commission also advised the city to remove or relocate the Jefferson Davis monument, noting that it is “the most unabashedly Lost Cause in its design and sentiment.”

In Virginia, it is illegal for localities to take down war memorials. Earlier this year, the Richmond City Council approved a measure asking the state legislature for jurisdiction of monuments located on city property.

Charlottesville attempted to remove two Confederate statues, but a state judge ruled against it in 2019.

George Washington Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback in front of the Jefferson Davis Monument in Richmond on June 3, 1907, reviewing a Confederate reunion parade. PHOTO: Library of Congress During the General Assembly session this year, lawmakers granted localities more authority over the monuments across the state, paving the way for Richmond politicians eager to make a change.

Gray stresses that the “Honor the 14th statue would be neither a prequel to removal nor a replacement.

“Adding monuments to Monument Avenue tells a more complete story,” she said. “There has to be a balance because we don’t want to erase history.”

Another proposal comes from Virginia Beach, where the Historic Preservation Commission recommended contextualizing a Confederate memorial with a public park and counterbalancing it with a statue, sculpture or artwork that commemorates African American heritage.

Some say paying tribute to black history isn’t enough to bring justice

to those who feel pain and offense when faced with the likeness of slaveholders.

Joseph Rogers is a Civil War educator and activist with Monumental Justice. He is also a descendant of James A. Fields, who was born into slavery and went on to become commonwealth’s attorney and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates after the war.

Rogers commends the proposed monument to black Union soldiers, but said it’s wrong to juxtapose oppressors with the oppressed.

“It does run the risk of creating a dangerous moral equivalency” between the causes for which the men fought, he explains. (Rogers is also the education program manager at the American Civil War Museum in Richmond but stressed he was speaking for himself, not the museum.)

“We’re talking about the leaders of the Confederacy,” he said. “The

men who were directing the armies which, had they been successful, would have expanded the institution of slavery.”

There’s a long way to go before Richmond memorializes black Civil War veterans on Monument Avenue.

The city has to sign off on the proposed location, currently slated for a median between Strawberry and Allison Streets, about two blocks west of the Robert E. Lee statue. If they get the green light, the Honor the 14 Foundation will conduct a search for an artist and design, which must also get approval from the city. Then there is the matter of raising millions of dollars.

The process could take years, but the effort to commemorate a battle that some describe as “forgotten” is a worthwhile cause, Knight said.

“This is about the question of what is the place and role of African Americans in society and African American history.”

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HBCUs are an American asset KAY COLES JAMES & HARRY L. WILLIAMS Vice President Mike Pence’s recent visit to Hampton University's Proton Therapy Institute drew virtually no national media attention, but it should have.

Sure, it offered no political drama.

Such visits appear routine. Yet this visit highlighted an important initiative that has been largely overlooked: ensuring the continued success of our nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) at a time when declining enrollment and financial struggles threaten their existence.

For more than a century, HBCUs have played an essential role in America’s higher education system. They provided an education for black Americans at a time when they were excluded from segregated universities. Even after desegregation, students who daily endured hostilities and humiliations in desegregated schools found acceptance at HBCUs. They met professors and administrators who cared about them, who knew the struggles they faced, and who were deeply invested in their success.

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needed to get good jobs, be truly independent, and earn a living for themselves and their families.

Douglass’ words apply today just as they did over 130 years ago.

Today, HBCUs continue to play a critical role in providing a quality education to black Americans and those of all races, serving hundreds of thousands of students across the country. By honoring black traditions and black history and also understanding the unique challenges that some minorities experience, HBCUs provide an environment that many students find more conducive to their success.

The data back this up, showing that HBCUs do a better job of helping young minorities develop the skills they need to have fulfilling careers, with graduates often ending up in the top 20 percent of income earners.

Vice President Pence’s visit to Hampton University was about more than witnessing the groundbreaking scientific work being done at its Proton Therapy Institute.

His visit also shined a light on something of which few Americans are aware: the positive role that Hampton and other HBCUs have played in American history and will

continue to play.

Hampton’s Proton Therapy Institute is just one example. It’s one of the largest proton therapy centers in the world and is producing new scientific discoveries and innovations. Proton therapy has changed the way we treat a variety of cancers by delivering doses of highly targeted radiation to tumors while sparing surrounding healthy tissue.

This kind of innovation isn’t surprising. Students at HBCUs represent just one-tenth of one percent of all college students in America, yet these schools produce 22 percent of all science, technology, engineering, and math bachelor’s degrees earned by black American students. These are the kinds of degrees that bring us such incredible advances like proton therapy.

Despite this, financial struggles have been a constant problem for many of the nation’s 100plus HBCUs, so the Trump administration has been taking steps to ease the burden and enable these schools to stay focused on their core mission.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Covid-19 & broken windows

The jury is still out on which of two things -- COVID-19 or the panic over COVID-19 -- will cost more lives and do more damage to the global economy.

My money's still on the latter. In the meantime, I've developed a surefire, Groundhog Day type test for whether the emergency is over: Watch for Nobel laureate economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to start trying to convince us it was, all in all, actually a GOOD thing.

Krugman on 9/11: "[T]he direct economic impact of the attacks will probably not be that bad. And there will, potentially, be two favorable effects.”

Krugman on Fukushima: “[T] he nuclear catastrophe could end up being expansionary, if not for Japan then at least for the world as a whole.”

Krugman would even have us believe that Pearl Harbor ended the Great Depression (which actually ended more than half a decade later).

“If we suddenly had a threat of war and a military build up,” he once asserted on ABC News’s Roundtable, "you’d be amazed how fast the economy would recover.”

Krugman is the 21st century’s foremost evangelist of the Broken Window Fallacy.

In Frederic Bastiat's “parable of the broken window,” a shopkeeper's son carelessly breaks a window pane.

A witty onlooker -- Paul Krugman’s ideological ancestor -- considers this a good thing because it creates business for the glazier who replaces broken windows.

As Bastiat points out, though, while the cost of replacing the pane is seen, other things aren’t: That was money the shopkeeper could have spent on a new pair of shoes, or on a book he wanted to read.

Instead of buying something that improves his life, the shopkeeper has to spend that money just getting back to his previous condition.

To cover costs like replacing the window, he probably raises prices, meaning his customers have to spend more on his products, leaving them less to spend on other things they might like.

Even the glazier’s customers get

screwed. Broken windows increase demand, which means higher prices.

The man building a new house has to pay more, and wait longer, for new windows.

The matter is a loss, not a gain, for everyone except the glazier.

Can we expect to see some longterm beneficial consequences from COVID-19 and its associated hysteria? Yes. Two likely outcomes are large, permanent increases in “telecommuting” (working from home instead of traveling to an office) and “distance learning” (taking classes from home instead of traveling to a university campus).

Those two trends were already noticeable, but fear of contagion is boosting them tremendously. When the fear subsides, the benefits will be remembered. Not as many people will be returning to offices and campuses as left them. That means lighter traffic, lower energy consumption, and more spare time for many workers and students.

Those are good things, but we could have had them any time we wanted them, with or without COVID-19 and the associated mass hysteria.

Contra Krugman, any “bright side” to catastrophe costs more than it’s worth.

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(from page 6) Early in his presidency, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to create a White House initiative to promote excellence and innovation at HBCUs. Then in 2018, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos canceled the repayment of more than $300 million in federal relief loans that four HBCUs took out in 2005 in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. More recently, President Trump signed the bipartisan FUTURE Act to provide more than $250 million a year for 10 years to HBCUs. This isn’t just good news for HBCUs, this is good news for America. With the administration highlighting the accomplishments of HBCUs through visits like Vice President Pence’s to Hampton, the American people can better appreciate the kind of return they’re getting on their investment and can begin to see how these institutions are not only creating brighter futures for minority students, but for the entire nation.

James, a graduate of Hampton University, is president of The Heritage Foundation.

Dr. Harry L. Williams is president & CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

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Faith & Religion Interfaith org asks governor to ensure hospitals, clinics are “immigration enforcement-free zones” The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) has called on Gov. Northam to make hospitals “immigration enforcement-free zones” to protect our undocumented neighbors during the COVID-19 public health crisis.

“We are facing a time of great challenge. We call for our leaders to show moral courage to care for the human beings in our community.

Documented or undocumented, we are in this together. Allow the doctors and medical professionals to do their jobs without the added concern of a cruel system that will add another layer of complication,” said Rev. Julio Hernandez, board member, Virginia Interfaith Center

for Public Policy Last week Northam declared a state of emergency in response to the rapid spread of coronavirus in Virginia. For those undocumented, notes the interfaith center, the health crisis poses an extra risk: the fear that their immigration status may be questioned if they seek care in a hospital or clinic. Many are fearful because U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a track record of conducting immigrant raids and enforcement at hospitals.

“Our top priority is to make sure Virginians stay safe and healthy, and that our response to this situation leaves no one behind,” said Northam.

According to the center, if people are sick and fear getting tested or treated, they will be left behind. If the governor does not act to protect immigrants at health facilities, the virus will continue to spread and jeopardize the health of millions of Virginians.

More than 800 health and human rights experts sent a letter to the U.S. president urging the federal government to make hospitals and healthcare facilities “immigration enforcement-free zones.”

The letter states, “The COVID-19 (coronavirus) response should not be linked to immigration enforcement in any manner. It will undermine individual and collective health

if individuals do not feel safe to utilize care and respond to inquiries from public health officials…These policies should be clearly and unequivocally articulated to the public by the federal, state, and local governments.”

As the coronavirus is spreading in Virginia, VICPP is urging federal and state officials to release coronavirus updates in several languages and ensure that health facilities will be available to everyone, regardless of their immigration status. VICPP’s petition campaign calls on Northam to take action.

with soap and water more frequently and for longer periods of time than I had before,” Curry said. “While vaccines and effective treatment and various social changes are all part of the equation, soap really helps.

“It may well be when we hear the word ‘love,’ it sounds simplistic or just sentimental,” Curry continued, but it is more relevant and necessary than ever. He urged Christians to be “contagious with love”

In livestreamed service, presiding bishop preaches on the simple power of soap & love ENN - Although Washington National Cathedral’s seats were empty on March 15, thousands of people attended its 11:15 Sunday service via livestream to virtually celebrate the Eucharist and hear a sermon from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, who preached on the power of love in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic that has led to the suspension of in-person worship across The Episcopal Church.

“We will fight this particular contagion, and all other pre-existing social contagions, by the disciplined labor of love,” Curry said. “Love working through medical folk, love working through leaders, love

working through each one of us who can help and heal – maybe in small ways, but add them up and they make a profound difference.”

Avoiding large gatherings like church services is one way people can prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, which is increasingly wreaking havoc on economies and health care systems around the world. As of the morning of March 15, at least 2,815 people in 49 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico have tested positive for the coronavirus in the United States, according to a database, and at least 59 patients with the virus have died.

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Project revealed an ancient Egyptian mummy’s face It’s now on display at a museum A recently opened exhibition on ancient Egypt at an Ohio museum features a facial approximation of a nearly 3,000-year-old mummy created by a Virginia Commonwealth University student and faculty member, and also a 3D digital replica of the mummy’s sarcophagus that was generated by a VCU professor.

The exhibition at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton displays a digital approximation of the face of the mummy, Nesiur, that was generated based off CT scan data. It was created by Mason Smith, an anthropology major who graduated from VCU in December, with the help of Terrie SimmonsEhrhardt, a faculty member in VCU’s Department of Forensic Science in the College of Humanities and Sciences.

“I decided I’d like to complete a modern facial approximation for [VCU’s] Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program last year,” Smith said. “[We set out to] digitally approximate what Nesiur, a 3,000year-old female Egyptian mummy, may have looked like in life. I would have never expected it to go on exhibition, but I am so excited that my little project has come to life in such a big way.”

The Boonshoft Museum linked up with VCU in 2018 when it invited Bernard Means, Ph.D., a teaching assistant professor of anthropology in the School of World Studies, to visit and 3D scan Nesiur’s sarcophagus.

“The goal was to create a digital file that could be integrated with the CT scan recently made of the mummy into an interactive touch table,” said Means, director of VCU’s Virtual Curation Laboratory, at which Means and his students create 3D digital models of historical, archaeological and paleontological objects used for teaching, research

A facial approximation of Nesiur on display at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery and created by Mason Smith and Terrie Simmons-Ehrhardt. PHOTO: Boonshoft Museum of Discovery and public outreach.

The museum provided Means and Simmons-Ehrhardt with CT data to visualize Nesiur in ways previously impossible.

“We effectively digitally unwrapped the mummy, providing a sense of discovery and increasing our understanding of who she was in life,” said Jill E. KriegAccrocco, curator of anthropology and exhibitions for the Dayton Society of Natural History, the parent organization of the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery. “This data provides us a much more effective way to educate the public while also remaining culturally sensitive to the display of human remains.”

Nesiur’s coffin and style of mummification suggests she lived during the 25th dynasty (circa

700 B.C.). She was excavated at the Deir el Bahri site in western Thebes in 1922 by H.E. Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She was donated to the museum in 1926.

Simmons-Ehrhardt extracted the skeletal data from Nesiur’s CT scan, allowing Means and his students to 3D print it and Smith to work on the facial approximation with software called FaceGen. “I generated the 3D model of the skull from the CT scan, adjusted the mandible into anatomical position because it was no longer in anatomical position, and generated frontal and profile images of the skull annotated with facial feature guidelines for her to import into FaceGen,” Simmons-Ehrhardt said.

“FaceGen demo does not allow the

import of a 3D skull model, but [Smith] was able to import the 2D frontal and profile images of the skull as background images and adjust the facial features in 3D using the software tools according to the guidelines I gave her to make the face ‘fit’ over the skull images.”

FaceGen contains a database of 3D faces, so Smith was able to adjust facial features until they lined up with Nesiur’s skull.

“Not only was it amazing to work with somebody as intelligent and accomplished as Terrie [SimmonsEhrhardt], but also the feeling of recreating the recognizable face of a woman who lived so long ago was indescribable,” said Smith, who works in the Virtual Curation Laboratory as lab manager and

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10,000 years in Virginia S. PRESTON DUNCAN If you haven’t spent much time in the river country of Virginia’s Tidewater region, you might mistake it for a standard-issue rural community. Mobile homes and tin-roofed Cape Cods scatter across flat fields, framed by loblollies and sycamores. Eagles and osprey war in the cool, green breath of the river.

Railroad tracks and duck blinds, distant shotgun fire, a white church; if it weren’t for signs announcing the entrance of the Pamunkey Indian Reservation, you could be forgiven for assuming you were just in a rural neighborhood with historical markers and a few uncommonlypreserved buildings.

The 1200-acre reservation sits on

an isolated peninsula in King William County, an hour’s worth of winding back roads from Richmond. The ancestral lands of the Pamunkey tribe stretch from the fall line in Richmond to the coast, and from the Potomac down into North Carolina. This is the land they have hunted, fished, traded, and cultivated for over 10,000 years. If you live in Richmond or east of the city, you live on their land. And yet, common knowledge of the Pamunkey is largely limited to Pocahantas, Chief Powhatan, and a forthcoming casino.

As exciting or troublesome as the prospect of a casino may be to the metropolitan area, the narrow publicity spotlight engages in a kind of erasure, pushing significant histories and

artistic director. “It really felt like putting together an image of the past.”

Simmons-Ehrhardt said she is excited to see Smith’s work put on display.

“I think Mason did a great job and it was a fun process to help her with applying free 3D technology to a historical facial approximation since I normally work with forensic cases,” she said.

Also on display is the digital 3D replica of Nesiur’s sarcophagus that was created by Means. A hands-on display allows museumgoers to interact with the sarcophagus in a dynamic way, whereas they would not have been able to touch the original artifact.

“A more traditional display would simply show the mummy and her sarcophagus behind glass,” Means said. “Here, people can interact with both and see features that would be obscured in a traditional display. I think this particular exhibit really highlights the potential for digital technologies for giving viewers, and even museum personnel, a way to go behind the scenes.

I simply find it amazing that people can digitally travel through the lid of the sarcophagus, peer under the mummy's wrappings and see the designs along the inside base of the coffin.”

The Boonshoft Museum reached out to Means because the Virtual Curation Laboratory has a long record of working with museums across the U.S. and in India for using digital scanning and 3D printing technologies for exhibits and public outreach.

“This particular project was possible because of the skills we have honed in the VCL, and the partnerships we have made across our campus and with museums all over,” Means said. “These include VCU forensic anthropologist Terrie Simmons-Ehrhardt, who not only extracted the skeletal data from Nesiur’s CT scan so that we can print it, but also worked with now VCU alumnae Mason Smith to create a facial approximation, which we have also 3D printed.”

Even people who can’t make it to the museum can still interact with some elements of the new exhibit, as the Boonshoft Museum has granted permission to the Virtual Curation Laboratory to place the 3D scans and the reconstruction of Nesiur online. - -VCU News Bernard Means, Ph.D., director of VCU’s Virtual Curation Laboratory, 3-D scans Nesiur’s sarcophagus at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in 2018.

struggles to the periphery of civic discourse. Most recently among them is the tribe’s hard-won battle for federal recognition.

“Federal recognition came in 2016,” said Chief Robert Gray of the Pamunkey Tribe. “It opened up our access to Indian Health Services for tribal members, and other federal programs that the government is obligated to, by its trust responsibility to federally-recognized tribes.”

Housing and environmental assistance for the land and the river are also included in federal programs. Before recognition, the Pamunkey tribe had limited access to federal funds, similar to nonprofits and community groups — but now with sovereign rights, Chief Gray sees it as a more level playing field.

Their tribe has direct government-togovernment communication with the

United States federal government.

The Pamunkey Tribe is governed by an elected body comprised of seven council members and a Chief, collectively referred to as Chief and Council. Chief Gray is a retired USAF Chief Master Sergeant, with a rope of silver hair and strong, gentle eyes. According to him, it was this governing body that decided, with community support, to begin the federal recognition application process in the late 1970s. But the official tribal relationship with the Commonwealth, he says, was established more than 340 years ago.

“We were the first to welcome the first permanent English settlement, and we were the first to be pushed out of our lands. Violence, disease, and warfare decimated our tribe. And not just our

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(from page 3) University’s outdoor adventure program. He’s also African American. His parents were worried about him spending time biking or backpacking. “They were less afraid of me getting eaten by bears and more afraid of what other people could do,” Lynch says. “So I think there’s a legacy there.”

In a survey in 2011 Shenandoah National Park found African Americans only made up 1 percent of park visitors. Claire Comer is hoping to do more research into segregation’s effect on visitorship today. “We’ll look at the issue of whether the the low numbers of African-Americans who experience Shenandoah has something to do with a time when people didn’t feel welcome here.”

Beyond the history segregated facilities and visitorship numbers today, race is relevant for other facets of the park’s past and present. Many sites were built by segregated labor during the New Deal, according to UMW professor Erin Devlin. “I always tell students that the next time you’re driving down Colonial Parkway in the spring and you see all those beautiful red buds and the dogwoods and all those beautiful flowering trees that we all enjoy... that is the legacy of the contribution of these enrollees... we experience it as a An exhibit in the Byrd Visitor Center at Shenandoah natural landscape, it is a constructed landscape.”

National Park David Lynch says acknowledging this history is a good first step towards being inclusive, but in the meantime he’s trying to make the outdoors accessible to others himself. “I try to make it a very welcoming place because I have not been always welcome.”

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Dominion to pay $1.4 million for alleged violations Dominion will pay $1.4 million and improve environmental monitoring in order to address alleged violations of Virginia’s environmental laws at Possum Point Power Station and Chesterfield Power Station under the terms of a settlement with Attorney General Mark R. Herring, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).

Under the terms Paylor of the settlement, Dominion will pay a total of $1.4 million in civil penalties, $990,000 will go to Virginia and $410,000 will go to the United States; will conduct multiple environmental compliance audits at numerous facilities; will put a comprehensive environmental management system in place; and will be liable for stipulated penalties for any future violations.

“It is critical that massive energy companies, like Dominion, adhere to state and federal environmental protections at every one of their facilities,” said Herring. “I hope a settlement like this sends a strong message to other energy companies that noncompliance with both state and federal environmental protections will not be tolerated in Virginia. I want to thank our partners at the EPA and DEQ for their help with this case.”

“DEQ is pleased to have collaborated with EPA in this comprehensive settlement that holds Dominion and its facilities accountable across the board,” said DEQ Director David Paylor.

“DEQ expects everyone to comply with the state’s environmental requirements at each and every facility they operate.”

According to the complaint, from about March 25, 2015 through

April 28, 2015, Dominion violated its Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit by releasing approximately 27.5 million gallons of water from a coal ash impoundment at its Possum River Power Station without providing

required specific advance notice.

Additionally, the complaint alleges that on two separate occasions, groundwater seepage was observed along the shoreline of the James River, adjacent to Dominion’s Chesterfield Power Station.

The settlement addresses seven state and federal alleged environmental violations including Violation of Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) Construction Stormwater Permits, among others.

Alcohol use disorder strongly linked to suicide risk, VCU-led study finds Alcohol use disorder is strongly associated with suicide risk, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University-led study published March 12 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. “[Alcohol use disorder] is a potent risk factor for suicide, with a substantial association persisting after accounting for confounding factors,” concluded the study, conducted by lead author Alexis Edwards, Ph.D., at VCU. “These findings underscore the impact of AUD on suicide risk, even in the context of other mental illness, and implicate the time frame shortly after a medical or criminal AUD registration as critical for efforts to reduce alcohol-related suicide.”

“Alcohol Use Disorder and Risk of Suicide in a Swedish PopulationBased Cohort” is part of a series of population studies VCU has conducted with Lund University in Sweden.

This study, completed in 2019 using Swedish population-based registries, had 2.2 million people in its sample. It is one of the largest population-based studies of its kind on alcohol use disorder and suicide in the world, said Edwards, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the VCU School of Medicine.

“It’s difficult to translate population-level statistics into individual stories, but one way to think of this is that someone could have come from a great family environment [with] no prominent

risk factors — like childhood abuse, or poverty, or a parent with severe mental illness — and if they develop AUD, that alone puts them at a higher risk for suicide,” Edwards said.

Edwards conducted the research at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at VCU, alongside VCU co-author Kenneth Kendler, M.D., the institute’s director, professor of psychiatry and eminent scholar, and Lund University coauthors Henrik Ohlsson, Ph.D., Jan Sundquist, M.D., Ph.D., and Kristina Sundquist, M.D., Ph.D. Edwards said taking action is critical to reducing the risk of suicide in individuals with alcohol use disorder.

“The findings suggest that doctors should be especially aware of suicide risk among patients with a history of alcohol use disorder, particularly in the time frame closest to the AUD diagnosis, when risk is highest,” Edwards said.

“These patients should be formally assessed for suicide risk.”

The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has awarded Edwards’ team more than $950,000 for the first two years of this four-year study and additional studies related to suicide and substance abuse disorders, including alcohol use disorder.

The NIAAA defines AUD as a chronic disease “characterized by compulsive alcohol use, loss of

control over alcohol intake and a negative emotional state when not using.” In 2018, 14.4 million American adults had alcohol use disorder, according to the NIAAA. “The most striking thing to me was that, even after we control for psychiatric comorbidity — that is, whether someone has depression, or schizophrenia, or an anxiety disorder — there is still a pronounced association between AUD and suicide,” Edwards said.

“It’s also really interesting to me that we see evidence for two different mechanisms underlying that association: First, we see evidence that familial factors — both genetic and environmental — contribute to the association, and second, there is evidence consistent with a causal relationship between AUD and suicide death.”

VCU has been among the top 20 institutions for NIAAA funding in 2018 and 2019, as researchers study ways to improve screening for unhealthy alcohol use, curb college drinking practices and increase diversity in the fields of substance abuse and genetics research.

“This study is just one example of how VCU is committed to addressing addiction,” said Peter Buckley, M.D., dean of the VCU School of Medicine and interim senior vice president for VCU Health Sciences and CEO of VCU Health System. “Dr. Edwards’ work contributes to the understanding of the health risks associated with alcohol use disorder.”

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Henrico supporting families during school closure These are unusual and extraordinary times, and communities are coming together to support their most vulnerable.

The Henrico community, for example, in response to numerous offers and inquiries from thoughtful citizens and community partners, Henrico County Public Schools said these weekend it is answering the question, “How can I help?”

Since Monday, March 16, the HCPS Department of Family and Community Engagement, along with the Department of Equity, Diversity and Opportunities, have accepted donations for Henrico families in need. Donations are meant to serve students and families as supplemental food and supplies on weekends during the HCPS closure period for coronavirus. The donations are designed to complement the distribution sites for student “grab and go” meals on weekdays. School division facilities are currently closed until at least March 30.

“We are sensitive to the vulnerability of our families during this time,” said Adrienne Cole Johnson, HCPS director of family and community engagement. “We have significant numbers of students in our normal weekend backpack food program, and during this closure, those students stood a chance of losing those important meals.

We are so grateful to everyone who’s reached out to us, asking about supporting our families. We want to honor that generosity.”

“We can only mitigate the impact of this crisis if we work together and practice social distancing.

But we must also ensure families who are most vulnerable during this crisis receive support,” said Monica Manns, chief equity, diversity and opportunities officer. “Many families have neither the means, nor physical space, to stock up on food and supplies for an extended period of time. This is why we have a plan that increasingly provides meals and supplies over time. I would like to personally thank the many community members and HCPS staff who have reached out to provide supplies and serve as volunteers. It reminds me that we truly are one Henrico.”

In addition to food items and supplies, monetary donations will be accepted through the Henrico Education Foundation. If inclined to provide funds, go to henricogives.org/ and click on the blue “Donate” button under the COVID-19 donation text. Donations made for this purpose would be used to purchase supplies for families in need.

Donations accepted (additional days and times may be added if necessary): (New Bridge Learning Center, 5915 Nine Mile Road, Henrico, Va. 23223: Look for “Exit Door 7”) • March 19 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

• March 24 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

• March 26 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Suggested breakfast donation items: • Juice boxes.

• Cereal.

• Instant oatmeal.

• Cereal bars or granola bars.

• Toaster pastries.

Suggested lunch donation items: • Fruit cups.

• Applesauce cups.

• Canned pasta in sauce.

• Individual snack bags (pretzels, mini graham crackers, mini cheddar crackers, chips, cookies, etc.).

• Soup.

• Individual mac and cheese cups.

• Peanut butter.

• Jelly (no glass jars).

• Canned meat.

Suggested hygiene donation items: • Disinfectant wipes.

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• Toilet paper.

• Feminine hygiene products.

For more information, contact Adrienne Cole Johnson, director of family and community engagement, at accole1@henrico.k12.va.us or 804-652-3716; or Monica Manns, chief equity, diversity and opportunities officer, at mmanns@ henrico.k12.va.us or 804-652-3845.

Riverside Health System restricts all routine visitation in hospitals Riverside Health System is not allowing visitors for routine visits to inpatients or team members in any of its five hospitals until further notice.

Riverside hospitals will allow one person to accompany a patient when in the emergency department, mother-baby unit and the neonatal intensive care unit.

Health system hospitals include Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, Riverside Doctors’ Hospital Williamsburg, Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester, Riverside Tappahannock Hospital

and Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onancock.

Hospital leadership and team members will work on a case-by-case basis with patients facing end-of-life situations where families want to be at the bedside.

All other patients will be encouraged to stay in touch with loved ones via video options, telephone or email, rather than in-person contact.

Riverside visitation remains essential personal only at all convalescent centers, rehabilitation centers and assisted living

residences. Visitors to these facilities with extenuating circumstances should contact the administrator or nursing director.

Riverside notes that it is closely monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak in step with the Virginia Department of Health.

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Henrico County Public Schools will propose starting the 2021-22 school year before Labor Day, and will hold a series of five community meetings on the idea. Families and members of the public are invited to ask questions, offer feedback and learn why the school division is moving toward this idea.

The sessions will include a short presentation from Henrico Schools leaders and staff members about the calendar process and some of the implications of an earlier start. That will be followed by opportunities to ask questions and comment. The five information sessions will be held at schools and libraries across Henrico County, and will include both morning and evening sessions, and include: • March 19 - 6:30 p.m. at Henrico High School, 302 Azalea Ave. • March 24 -6:30 p.m. at Pocahontas Middle School, 12000 Three Chopt Rd. • April 2 - 10:30 a.m. at Fairfield Area Library, 1401 N. Laburnum Ave. The school division will be posting detailed calendar information to henricoschools.us, along with a feedback portal, before the series of community meetings begins.

The School Board is tentatively scheduled to vote on the matter at its April 23 meeting, in order to give the Henrico community notice of the change more than a year in advance.

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tribes of the Tidewater area,” Chief Gray said. “By the 1700s, even the local Europeans, Americans — whatever you want to call them — they didn’t consider us much.”

The Pamunkey Tribe was mentioned in the House of Burgesses and various Virginia General Assembly newspaper articles, but wasn’t a major force to be considered until the 1800s and the time of Indian wars out West. Chief Gray noted that as press coverage grew, eastern Americans began to form images in their minds of Native Americans, as a whole, based off of the Apache, Sioux, and other western tribes in the news.

“Even our tribe, when the Jim Crow laws started coming, realized that everyone outside of us was thinking, ‘Oh, these aren’t real Indians. Real Indians are out West,’” said Chief Gray. “We put a concerted effort into saying, ‘No, we’re real. We’re real Indians.

Here.’ And to do that, we portrayed ourselves as Indians; in the late 1800s, our tribe formed a group that would go around putting on plays.”

One of the most famous plays, according to Chief Gray, was a reenactment of John Smith’s rescue by Pocahontas. “Now, everyone agrees [that story] was BS. Didn’t happen that way. But we did it to show we are Indians living right here amongst you. We haven’t gone anywhere.”

The effort to establish the tribe as Indians came with the realization that to protect their land, the Pamunkey needed to protect their identity. Obstacles on the path to federal recognition date back to the railroad that ran through their reservation: in the 1850s, the railroad was built without permission. In the late 1970s when a tribal member retired to move back home, he learned the tribe wasn’t receiving rent for the railroad. They sued the railroad for back rent, but because of the 18th century Indian Non-Intercourse Act, settlements with Indian tribes had to be approved by the U.S. Congress — and the legislation specifically said that it, in no way, gave federal recognition to the tribe.

“So the question came up,” said Chief Gray. “If you don’t federally recognize us, why do we have to go to you for this? Ok, it just is. Let’s go ahead and get this federal recognition.”

Starting down the path, the Pamunkey had to prove their continued existence as an Indian Tribe through their historical government and culture. As the years went on, efforts to gain recognition became harder; the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) required more proof and evidence. In the 2000s, the tribe arrived at the BIA office in Washington, D.C. with a truck full of evidence and documentation, requiring dollies to carry the boxes inside — but opposition came when their application went in, with outsiders worried they’d take advantage of economic opportunities that would cut into their business.

“MGM was [thinking we’d start] a casino and cut into their business,” said Chief Gray. “What was really bad, especially about MGM, is rather than say ‘We’re against them because they’re going to hurt us

economically,’ they came out and said, ‘We’re against them because they’re not really Indian.’”

Proving the continuous culture, heritage, and presence among the Pamunkey’s diasporic population was difficult. Even with the longstanding Commonwealth Treaty — which the tribe still honors by presenting a deer to the Governor each year — generational continuity in Virginia has been largely interrupted by another regional tradition: racism.

“Our people fought in the Revolutionary War,” said Chief Gray. “In the Civil War, we were Unionists… local landowners were trying to have the state take away the reservation. We figured we’d be better off if the Union won.”

As Jim Crow laws came into effect after the war, the tribe fought them. In the 1924 Racial Integrity Act, one drop of anything other than white blood deemed a person colored — unless that one drop was Indian.

“Rich families in Virginia, old money, were proud of their ancestry with Pocahontas. They wanted to go around claiming Pocahontas, but they didn’t want the stigma of being colored,” said Chief Gray. “So the way they passed the law, those people weren’t colored, but the real descendants of the Pocahontas tribe were.”

By the 1920s, many Pamunkey tribal members left the South to move north. Chief Gray’s grandparents left for Philadelphia, which is now home to the tribe’s second-largest population base. He maintained a close relationship with the reservation in Virginia, as his family visited each holiday and summer throughout his upbringing.

Today, it seems on the surface like life on the reservation isn’t much different than in other Tidewater communities. Tribe members commute to Richmond, Williamsburg, and Norfolk for work.

Most attend services at the Pamunkey Indian Baptist Church. But what sets reservation life apart isn’t so much the old one-room schoolhouse, or the museum cataloging the tribe’s archeological development — it’s a connection to each other and the land. It defies the

capacity of bureaucratic cataloging.

“We have a sense of community in the Pamunkey Tribe. Our children are born with that. We encourage it,” said Chief Gray. “In Indian country, the term is ‘cousins.’ I know my cousins. My grandmother was one of about ten siblings, and their grandchildren are my cousins… I know a lot of families don’t have that far of a connection and ability to trace their lineage. We’re all under the same banner: Pamunkey Indian Tribe. We know our history, and we’re proud of that history and everything it took to get us here.”

Times have changed over the years. During the isolation of Jim Crow laws, the state helped establish the reservation’s schoolhouse, which only went through 8th grade. For further education, they had to go outof-state; by the time the schools were integrated in the 1960s, many families had already left.

“In a way, a lot of the damage was [already] done,” said Chief Gray. “Since I’ve been here, having the kids go to public schools gave the parents more contact with local residents, and more day-to-day relationships.

That’s really what changed. No laws, just actually meeting people. Now, my kids went to King William schools. One lives in Henrico County, one lives in Mechanicsville. We’re integrating into the community now.”

With that integration came the added complexity of maintaining tribal identity. Programs like the Indian Gaming Commission provide a path for tribal economic sovereignty, free from reliance on the uncertainties of federal grant programs. With the prospect of financial independence, the tribe looks to implement new environmental stewardship and river protection initiatives, and explores options to relocate their museum to be more accessible to Virginia’s historical tourism.

Chief Gray believes the Pamunkey will have to work harder among the distractions of the modern world, individually learning how to manage their tribal identity alongside the other facets of their lives.

“Having this landmass for hundreds of years since the treaties, the reservation means… God, I can’t even say how much it means to tribal members,” said Chief Gray. “We have members who come down, and one of the first things they do — before they even visit their family — they go down to the river.”

Many tribal members visit the river several times each day. It carries an emotional bearing, and even from Philadelphia, the reservation gave Chief Gray’s family a connection to the land.

“I think having this as a base may have given our people more willingness to scatter out of Virginia, because they always knew they had somewhere to come back to. Somewhere they belonged,” said Chief Gray. “If we didn’t have the land and the families disappeared, the only connection would be family members owning private little plots. And I don’t think the connection to the tribe would be as strong as it is today, knowing my ancestors have lived here for over 10,000 years.”- RVA Mag

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