VIRGINIA POLITICS

Unpacking VCU’s Decision to Reject Racial Literacy in Curriculum

by Kate Seltzer | JUSTICE, RICHMOND POLITICS, VIRGINIA POLITICS

A proposed racial literacy requirement as part of VCU’s general education curriculum will not be implemented. In a 10-5 decision, the VCU Board of Visitors voted Friday to strike down the requirement, against the recommendations of the University Undergraduate...

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Van Hollen, Beyer Propose Surtax On Millionaires

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Richmond has the third-slowest mail delivery rate of any United States metro area. But if you live here, you already know that. Rachel Westfall, who lives in Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood, says her mail service has always been hit or miss. But since April,...

Hashmi’s Election Draws Racist Comments on Facebook

Virginia state Senator-elect Ghazala Hashmi will be the first Muslim to serve in Virginia's legislature, and a lot of racists on social media just can't stop crying about it. Days after Virginia’s legislative elections, racist comments continued to flood news stories...

Black Children More Likely To Live In ‘Concentrated Poverty’

Nearly 100,000 Virginia children live in high-poverty neighborhoods; that figure includes 15 percent of Virginia's African American children, but only 2 percent of the commonwealth's white children. African American children are more than seven times as likely as...

Snap Out of It: Political Ads Appearing on Snapchat

In the run-up to today's election, political candidates are trying all sorts of novel ways to reach young voters -- including, yes, ads on Snapchat. A candidate for sheriff in a rural Virginia county is trying to reach younger voters by advertising on a social media...

Beer Distributors Pour Donations Into General Assembly Races

The Virginia Beer Wholesalers Association, which distributes many of Richmond's favorite craft brews, is also the seventh-largest political donor in the state this year; a slight majority of its donations go to Republicans. On a chilly fall night in the Scott’s...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Remains Determined To Cut Payday Loan Protections

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau insists that individual states, not the federal government, should regulate payday loans. But here in Virginia, payday loans are very weakly regulated, with no upper limit on interest rates. The Consumer Financial Protection...

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Deconstructs Power: ‘The South Won the War of Aesthetics’

Coates, author of new novel The Water Dancer, came to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture to discuss the legacies of emancipation. Author and Maryland native Ta-Nehisi Coates visited Richmond last week to discuss emancipation and to promote his New York Times...

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