Racial Justice

In the next few weeks, the State Water Control Board will vote on whether to grant certification to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would carry fracked natural gas 300 miles from northern West Virginia to Southside Virginia. Environmentalists are raising concerns about water quality, but social justice advocates are also speaking out.

Governor Ralph Northam pardoned seven Black men who were executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman in Martinsville Tuesday morning, citing a lack of due process and disproportionate, racially-based sentencing.

As they listened to the judge read out the verdict in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, people gathered at Richmond’s monument to Robert…

When he was elected in 2015, Wes Bellamy became Charlottesville’s eighth ever Black city councilor. As Vice Mayor he helped lead the fight to pass a…