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INSIDE Talk about the glass ceiling- 2 Survival of black mothers - 4 Biden and those in cages- 5

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Va. lifts mask mandate for fully vaccinated people, signaling a return to pre-pandemic life KATE MASTERS VM- Virginia is dropping most of its mask requirements for fully vaccinated people beginning this weekend and, in two weeks, will end all remaining social distancing and capacity restrictions on businesses, Gov. Ralph Northam said Friday.

The announcement, which marks Virginia’s most dramatic return to pre-COVID life since the pandemic began, follows new CDC guidelines announced Thursday.

“Virginians have been working hard, and we are seeing the results in our strong vaccine numbers and dramatically lowered case counts,” Northam said in a statement. “That’s why we can safely move up the timeline for lifting mitigation measures in Virginia.”

The repeal of the mask mandate goes into effect at midnight. There are some significant exceptions, including public transit, health care facilities and congregate settings, which include correctional facilities and homeless shelters.

The mask mandate will also remain in effect for both teachers and students in K-12 settings, where masks are required indoors as well as outdoors when six feet of social distancing isn’t possible. And unvaccinated employees of businesses regulated under the state’s emergency health orders — a broad category that includes dining and retail establishments, fitness centers, entertainment and personal grooming — will be required to wear masks.

Otherwise, there will be no penalties for unvaccinated people who do not wear masks in public, though they are “strongly encouraged” to continue wearing face coverings in all public indoor and outdoor settings, according to the governor’s office.

Likewise, businesses can continue to require patrons to wear masks, the governor’s office said.

“The bottom line is that if a business says you have to wear a mask, you have to respect that,” Northam’s spokeswoman, Alena Yarmosky, said.

“They can require masks in an establishment just

like they require shoes and shirts.”

As he lifted the mask mandate, Northam also pushed up the date when he plans to roll back remaining social distancing and capacity restrictions for businesses. Originally slated to end on June 15, Yarmosky said those restrictions will be removed in two weeks, on May 28.

Northam had already announced plans to relax those restrictions beginning this weekend, including expanded capacity allowances for social gatherings and entertainment venues.

Yarmosky said the administration’s priority over the next two weeks will be to increase vaccination numbers before the May 28 rollback of capacity restrictions. That will include a statewide day of action, when Northam will encourage local health departments, community health workers and regular Virginians to encourage as many people as possible to receive their first shot.

As of Friday, 63 percent of adults in Virginia had at least one dose of the vaccine and 36.8 percent were fully immunized. The state made vaccines eligible to everyone 16 and up in midApril.

The state is still working toward a milestone set by President Joe Biden, who announced a nationwide goal of administering at least a first dose to 70 percent of Americans by July 4.

In Virginia, the goal is 75 percent, state vaccine coordinator Dr. Danny Avula said in a news briefing on Wednesday. Yarmosky said the state was waiting to completely remove capacity restrictions, including a required six feet of indoor distancing between tables at restaurants, until local health departments had fully mobilized their outreach efforts.

“Our message is that we’re holding off for two more weeks so we can get everybody vaccinated,” she said. “We want that final push.”

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Will glass ceiling on Virginia and nations statewide races remain for black women?

JOSEPHINE WALKER CNS - Over 30 years after Virginia’s (and the nation’s) first Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, was elected, a Black woman has still not been elected governor anywhere in the nation. Four candidates currently campaigning for governor of Virginia are attempting to change that.

Four Black women have entered the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial race. If any of them are elected, the commonwealth would become the first state with a Black female governor.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, and former Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William, are competing for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Former Roanoke City Sheriff Octavia Johnson is seeking the Republican nomination.

Independent activist and educator Princess Blanding is running for the new Liberation Party, which she helped establish last year.

Former U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-New York, made history in 1972 when she became the first Black woman to seek a U.S. presidential nomination for a major political party. Almost 50 years later, the road to electing a Black woman to a governorship or the presidency has yet to be traveled.

“The next time a woman of whatever color, or a dark-skinned person of whatever sex aspires to be president, the way should be a little smoother because I helped pave it,” Chisholm said in 1973 regarding her unsuccessful presidential bid.

Dearth of representation Since Chisholm was elected, 50 Black women have served in Congress or federal office, according to the Center for American Women and Politics database. Ten Black women have held statewide

From left to right: Independent Princess Blanding, former Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William, Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, and former Roanoke City Sheriff Octavia Johnson. executive offices such as lieutenant governor or attorney general, according to the same database. No Black woman has ever been elected governor, although former Georgia Rep. Stacey Abrams, D-Atlanta, came close in a 2018 hotly contested election.

Carroll Foy said the nation’s history limits what some citizens view as a capable candidate.

“Unfortunately, people look to the past to try to dictate what can happen in the future,” she said.

“When people see women of color running for higher office, we are seen as the exception and not the rule.”

Organizations dedicated to electing women to office, such as EMILY’S List, Higher Heights, and EMERGE, aim to make the paths to office more accessible in recent years, providing advice, contributions and peer support to

women candidates.

McClellan said when she first ran for a House seat in 2005, she had very little guidance and few mentors.

“There was no collective PAC, there was no EMERGE, you know, groups that have since formed to help Black candidates and women candidates and Black women candidates. They weren’t there,” McClellan said. “I had to really do it on my own, with help from the handful of people who had done it before me.”

Media representation The media often poorly represents women in politics, according to Political Parity, a research group that recruits and supports women candidates. Often, media coverage surrounding women running for office adds unnecessary details about a woman candidate’s clothing,

weight, qualifications, motherhood situation and emotional maturity, according to the same report.

“Whether it’s questions about their parenting or their husbands, it’s just questions that we don’t see male candidates get,” said Kristen Hernandez, deputy director of campaign communications for EMILY’S List, an organization devoted to electing pro-choice Democratic women to office. “We’ve seen sexist rhetoric, misogynistic comments and racist tropes as well.”

McClellan said perhaps the most consistent troubling narrative she sees in the media surrounding her campaign are questions about her qualifications. McClellan said she has more experience than all her Democratic opponents combined.

“There never seems to be a question, when a white man runs for governor, but yet for us it’s, ‘Are you ready?’” McClellan said. “If I’m not ready after 16 years in state government, when would I ever be ready?”

McClellan said she also frequently sees herself and Carroll Foy lumped together in news articles, as they are both Black women who have served in the state legislature.

A New York Times analyst hypothesized last month that McAuliffe might win the Democratic primary race because three of his competitors — McClellan, Carroll Foy and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax — are Black, younger and generally more left-wing than McAuliffe.

Voters typically prefer candidates that most resemble themselves, according to a study published in an Oxford Academic Journal.

This tendency suggests that Black women must also convince all constituents that despite being Black, they do not solely represent Black Virginians. Instead, most see

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Glass ceiling (from page 2) themselves as the most qualified person for the job who just so happens to be a Black woman.

“I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud,” Chisholm said during a campaign event in ’72. “I am not the candidate of the woman’s [sic] movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.”

Even now the persistent myth that Black candidates can only win in majority-minority districts continues to plague America’s political scene, according to the Brookings Institute, a public policy organization headquartered in the District of Columbia. But of the five nonincumbent Black women elected to Congress in 2018, all were Democrats and four won in majority-white districts, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.

Fundraising obstacles One of the biggest barriers to elected office is the ability to raise campaign funds. The ability to fund a campaign continues to be a major obstacle to success for many women, not just women of color, according to the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan law and policy institute.

The Center also found that candidates often receive party support based on their fundraising potential, which disadvantages candidates without notoriety, wealthy support networks or self-funding abilities. Donors who fund political campaigns are often wealthy, white and typically male, according to Demos, a Liberal think tank.

These donors, according to the same report, also have different views and priorities, especially on the issues that matter most to Black women.

Blanding is the sister of the late MarcusDavid Peters, a Black man shot and killed by a Richmond Police officer while he experienced what his family said was a mental health crisis.

Blanding said fundraising is an ongoing struggle.

She recalled looking at the first financial records report from the Board of Elections and said she could not help but “crack up laughing” at the amount she raised compared to other candidates.

“But guess what? I have volunteers who are working around the clock to get the same results that they are paying for,” Blanding said. “That means a whole lot more to me.”

Carroll Foy raised just over $1.8 million in the first quarter, while McClellan raised roughly half a million dollars, according to a Capital News Service analysis of fundraising reports. Carroll Foy resigned from her seat to fundraise. General

Princess Blanding, sister of Marcus-David Peters, speaks to protesters outside the Stuart C. Siegel Center on the first day of the 2020 General Assembly special session.

PHOTO: Andrew Ringle Assembly members cannot fundraise until the session adjourns. Blanding raised almost $12,000 in the first quarter and Johnson raised $800.

Altogether, all four women have raised just over half of what Democratic frontrunner and former Gov. Terry McAuliffe raised.

Aprill Turner, vice president of communications and external affairs for Higher Heights for America, said all women must run against a “boys’ club.” Higher Heights for America is a political action committee that seeks to mobilize and elevate the voices of Black women across the country. Turner said the path to elected offices has typically been paved by white men, and usually involves network connections and exclusive organizations that people of color and women have historically been unable to access.

“You’ll see men groomed in a different way, or almost appointed,” Turner said. “Like, ‘You’ve got next,’ and kind of that little boys’ network.”

Will the statewide glass ceiling remain intact?

Former Del. Winsome Sears, R-Winchester, is running for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. Sears was elected to a majority-Black district in 2002, becoming the

first Republican to do so in Virginia since 1865.

If she won the seat she would be the first Black woman to ever serve as Virginia’s lieutenant governor. L. Douglas Wilder was the state’s first Black lieutenant governor. He then became the commonwealth’s governor and the first Black man in the nation to hold the title.

Carroll Foy and McClellan will both compete for the Democratic party’s nomination on June 8. Johnson competed in the Republican party’s unassembled convention that took place statewide on May 8. Blanding will make it to the November ballot if she collects 2,000 signatures

by June 8, which she is confident she will achieve.

Carroll Foy feels confident she will win the election.

“We’re mobilizing and organizing more people of color, more people from the AAPI community, from the Latinx community, the Indigenous community, the millennials, more women than ever before,” Carroll Foy said, regarding her campaign. “We’re building the most diverse coalition of voters and supporters that Virginia has ever seen.”

Early voting is underway for the Democratic primary on June 8.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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Make the survival of Black mothers a priority TYRAN GREEN Today in Virginia, Black mothers like me still struggle to survive having children.

Virginia’s maternal mortality rate for Black mothers is more than twice what it ought to be (compared with White mothers).

That’s the statistic, but people need to know what it’s like to be a young, pregnant, Black person in a city like Portsmouth where I live. Then maybe they’ll understand better why there are these disparities.

I have five grown kids. When I got pregnant for the first time, I was very young. I didn’t have a good education, and I only got on Medicaid after I got pregnant.

Young women like I was don’t get pre-natal care until they get to their second or third trimester. They don’t know how important it is.

They haven’t been educated about it, and back then we didn’t have health insurance unless we were pregnant, anyway.

I didn’t understand that pre-natal vitamins are important to keep your teeth and your bones healthy. I also didn’t have any dental insurance.

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bad because of five pregnancies, I went to public health because I still didn’t have dental insurance, and they pulled out all my molars. They said they couldn’t do any repair work.

When I got pregnant again, I decided to educate myself, and I signed up for a Lamaze class.

The only one I could find was in a wealthy neighborhood, and all the other mothers in the class were White. I learned a lot, and I advocated for myself with doctors, but they still treated me differently.

Doctors know that they won’t get paid as much when a patient has Medicaid. Some doctors don’t take it at all. Others do but they don’t give The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions. Letter writers and columnists opinions are their own and endorsements of their views by The LEGACY should be inferred. The LEGACY assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material.

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their Medicaid patients the same care that people get who have better insurance. Even though I knew a lot about pregnancy and childbirth when I had my younger kids, I still never felt I was treated with respect when I was in labor. All of my friends could tell you similar stories about being sent home when their labor was advanced, no one caring when they said they’re in pain, and so on. I wasn’t surprised by the story in 2019 about the doctor in Portsmouth who was performing hysterectomies on Black women without their consent.

I’m on the board of Virginia Organizing. We supported Del. Lachrese Aird’s declaration that racism is a public health crisis. The treatment of pregnant Black people is one of the reasons for that public health crisis. My experience is no different from what all the Black mothers I know have been through.

The American Rescue Plan includes better funding for Medicaid, and some of it goes to these disparities in Black maternal mortality.

Gov. Ralph Northam also released a plan to study and make a difference in the rate of mortality for Black mothers. “Our Administration

remains fully committed to pursuing policies that ensure equitable access to health care for Black, Indigenous, and other women of color,” said Governor Northam. “This plan is the culmination of more than a year of work with diverse stakeholders and provides a roadmap with actionable recommendations for creating the systemic change necessary to achieve our goal of eliminating racial disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes in Virginia by 2025.”

Virginia’s Medicaid administration has applied for permission to extend post-partum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to a full year. So far, the change will only apply to a demonstration program. At Virginia Organizing, we want the extension to be made permanent.

These changes are a good start but not enough. As long as there are disparities in what doctors are paid for treating different people, there will be disparities in how lowincome Black mothers are treated, and that means there will be disparities in who survives and who doesn’t.

Green is a leader in the Portsmouth Chapter of Virginia Organizing and a member of Virginia Organizing’s state governing board.

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voters based on their choice of presidential Biden’s racism won’t ofcandidate. addition to believing that black Americans put his victims in cages areIntoo stupid to be allowed to make their own The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reports that the Biden administration is poised to propose a ban on menthol cigarettes.

The reason? Well, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 85 percent of black smokers choose the flavored cigarettes over “plain” tobacco, versus 29 percent of white smokers.

In the fantasy world that Joe Biden (and the anti-tobacco crusaders and fake civil rights advocates who have his ear) live in, a menthol cigarette ban will “protect” the black community from the effects of “aggressive marketing” by the tobacco industry, whether that community really wants to be “protected” or not.

In the real world, what Biden and company are saying is that black Americans are too stupid to make the “right” choices on their own and that government must therefore make those choices for them.

There’s a word for that kind of attitude toward people based on skin color. The word is “racism.”

Not that Biden’s racism has ever been a secret.

In 1986, he led the legislative fight to punish black cocaine users (who, on average, preferred their cocaine in “rock,” or “crack” form) more harshly than white cocaine users (who, on average, preferred their coke in powder form).

Oh, he apologized, 16 years later, saying he'd made a “profound mistake.” But he obviously neither learned from that mistake nor reconsidered his racist attitudes. By 2020 he was claiming the expertise to evaluate the “blackness”

choices on smoking, Biden apparently also believes they’re too stupid to figure out that they can “season” plain tobacco cigarettes with menthol flavoring from crushable capsules or eyedroppers.

A federal ban on menthol cigarettes will be even less effective as a way of reducing tobacco use among black Americans than higher mandatory minimum sentences were as a way of reducing

drug use among black Americans.

If there’s an up side to Biden’s continuing racism, it's that he's gone from harshly punitive to annoyingly paternalistic.

Instead of throwing black Americans in prison cells for endless years to punish them for their choices, he just wants to inflict endless minutes of inconvenience on them in the name of “helping” them.

As a menthol smoker myself, I have to hope that “cancel culture” swings into action and deplatforms Biden over this racist silliness.

Thomas L. Knapp

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Degree a tribute to his grandfather 27 years in the making In 1994, Howard Belton had just retired as an engineer at Chrysler in Michigan when his grandson, Jordan Howard Thomas, was born.

The two became inseparable.

“I was his right hand,” Thomas said. “When I got to a certain age, he would take me with him. He owned an alarm company. So, he would install alarm systems at people's houses. I would go with him and hand him wires. And I had no idea what [I was doing], you know, I was just there, literally following in his footsteps.”

Thomas moved to Maryland when he was 4, but the connection with his grandfather didn’t fade. He spent every holiday and summer in Michigan, and Belton bought him tools every Christmas.

“Every time I went up there, it was the same old thing, ‘Jordan's always with Grandpa,’” Thomas said.

A letter framed on a wall.

Following, as he did, in his grandfather’s literal footsteps, it surprised exactly no one that Thomas wanted to become an engineer. He chose biomedical engineering, because when he was a junior in high school, his grandfather had a heart attack.

“During that time, I really wanted to go inside medical or earlywarning devices for things like Alzheimer’s, dementia, heart attacks, strokes,” Thomas said.

But when Thomas came to Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012, he was not accepted into the biomechanical engineering department at what was then the VCU School of Engineering.

Instead, he had to enroll in the preengineering program.

“It was hard just to wrap my head around it,” Thomas said.

Around his second or third year at VCU, he realized he could accomplish his goals as a mechanical engineer. But choosing a major didn’t make things go any faster. “We all know that you’re

‘supposed’ to graduate in four years,” Thomas said. “People put their own fears in you. If you don't do things by a certain timeline, you're doing it wrong.”

So when Thomas’ pursuit of a bachelor’s degree continued beyond his fifth year — and professors, friends and classmates started voicing their opinions about his major — Thomas didn't get upset or discouraged. He knew they were trying to help, that they want to see him do good things and that they saw great qualities in him. He reflected on special moments when he was young — such as building a go-cart with his grandfather — to motivate himself to stick with it.

“It didn't really bother me that I felt that I wasn't really making any headway with the major,” Thomas said. “I was determined to graduate with an engineering degree because of my grandfather. … I never changed my major because I knew I could do it. I knew if I put enough time in, I'm going to get to where I wanted to be.”

Their bond helped Thomas as he progressed toward earning an engineering degree. “I was determined to graduate with an engineering degree because of my grandfather," Thomas said. "I never changed my major because I knew I could do it. I knew if I put enough time in, I'm going to get to where I wanted to be.” (Courtesy of Jordan Howard Thomas) It took nine years, but his patience and persistence paid off.

Thomas will receive his degree in mechanical engineering this month.

“It is not one thing that has made it a nine-year journey,” he said. “I can't pinpoint and say, ‘Oh, it was this class, this class and this class.

This is the reason why it's taken so long.’ It was a multitude of events that's happened in my life since I've been at VCU. But I'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason. And ever since I've been here, I've never regretted it, ever.

Jordan Howard Thomas, left, with his grandfather, Howard Belton.

It's prepared me to tackle whatever I want to do in life.”

And what he wants to do now is follow in his grandfather’s footsteps once again. For the past two summers, he interned with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in Michigan — the same place Howard Belton retired from when Thomas was born.

“That's where I would like to go post-graduation,” Thomas said. “I recently interviewed for a [full-time] position with them and am waiting back on the offer letter. … It’s definitely a full circle moment. [My grandfather] really has given me all of the motivation and tools to get through this.” © VCU News

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