Virginia Lawmakers Approve Commission To Study Compensation For Black Families After PWI Took Their Land

Essence Magazine:

Win McNamee / Staff / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated March 19, 2024

The Virginia state legislature has given the stamp of approval to create a statewide commission that will investigate how the state’s public higher education institutions displaced Black communities.

In addition, the city of Newport News, Va. and Christopher Newport University (CNU) “are creating a joint task force to reexamine the destruction of a Black neighborhood to make way

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