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• Originally published 07/13/2017

  Can Richmond avoid public rows over its Confederate statues?

  The mayor of what was the capital of the Confederacy wants to preserve its statues, but ensure the full history is told.

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• Originally published 07/06/2015

  Richmond split over Confederate history

  In the capital of the Confederacy, calls are rising to properly memorialize the slave trade

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• Originally published 11/12/2013

  Baseball and slavery collide in Richmond

  A new AA stadium will be located across the street from one of the central slave trading sites in the country.

• Originally published 08/08/2013

  Va. NAACP head criticizes group’s plan to fly Confederate flag along I-95 outside Richmond

  RICHMOND, Va. — A heritage group’s plan to fly a large Confederate flag along Interstate 95 outside Richmond is drawing criticism from the head of the NAACP’s Virginia chapter.The Virginia Flaggers plans to fly the 10-by-15-foot flag on a 50-foot pole just south of Richmond. It’s tentatively scheduled to go up Sept. 28 and will be visible from the northbound lanes of the interstate, although organizers haven’t said exactly where it will be located.Virginia NAACP Executive Director King Salim Khalfani told the Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/14iwLLJ ) that the flag would make Richmond look like a “backwater, trailer park, hick town.”...

• Originally published 07/08/2013

  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts plans to rehab pre-Civil War house, turn it into visitor center

  RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is planning to turn a pre-Civil War house on its Richmond property into a regional visitor center.Officials plan to complete the work to rehabilitate the historic three-story, 9,000-square-foot Robinson House by the summer of 2015. The building currently serves as a storage facility.Once complete, the circa-1850 building will include a visitor center on the first floor as well as a gallery interpreting the site’s history going back to the days of American Indians....

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• Originally published 03/21/2017

  Democracy Demands Wisdom In Its Citizens

  Steve Hochstadt

  Conservative Republican politicians don’t believe that “democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens”. They attack the findings of geology, evolutionary biology, and climate science. They support the spread of fake news and promote alternative facts. They disparage the media in general. There is nothing new about the attacks on truth and knowledge by the Trump administration except its shamelessness.