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OP-ED | Envisioning a Unified Democratic Party

by F. T. Rea | LETTER TO THE EDITOR, OPINION, OPINION & EDITORIAL

For more reasons than I can count, this year I will most certainly vote for the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. That will be true if it's President Joe Biden. It will also be true if it is Vice President Kamala Harris. Should the Democratic Party's convention...

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How to win at being an outsider

I’m a legal alien. I’m a Georgian-born, British-bred, consultant working in New York. In 2013, a mentor of mine suggested I hide this part of my identity in order to land a job in the US. With good intentions, she advised me to erase any trace of foreignness from my...

OPED: Friends of East End Cemetery aim to set record straight on disregarded Black cemeteries

As a member of the volunteer effort, I’m happy to see stories about the ongoing reclamation of East End and Evergreen cemeteries. The story, however, needs correction. The Great Depression may have forced some African Americans to leave Richmond, but between 1930 and...

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