On Thursday, the Virginia Board of Health will meet to hear public comment and vote on whether to move forward with proposed changes to the regulations for licensure for abortion facilities. The regulations, which are mandated by a 2011 law, are commonly known as Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers or TRAP and single out abortion […]
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ICYMI: Glen Sturtevant Opposes Rezoning to Integrate Richmond’s Whitest Schools
Senator Glen Sturtevant has started a petition in opposition to a rezoning plan that would better integrate two of Richmond’s whitest schools. He claims he wants to “save” the two schools, but from what? Sturtevant’s petition uses a phrase, “Save Our Neighborhood Schools,” commonly employed in the 1970s by opponents of school integration. “Every child, […]
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Local Heroes Leading the Fight for Immigrant Justice in Virginia
Living in America in 2019 feels like a scene from a dystopian nightmare: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violently tearing children away from their families at the border, mistreating asylum seekers in unsanitary and overcrowded detention centers, and picking teenagers off the street while they’re waiting for their school bus. As the daughter of […]