A Virginia county school board is now facing a federal lawsuit after it voted last month to reinstate the names of Confederate leaders to two schools against considerable community opposition. The Virginia chapter of the NAACP and five students in the Shenandoah County public school system sued the school board, alleging that the reversal of […]
Virginia NAACP President Cozy Bailey speaking to a crowd in front of the Shenandoah County Circuit Court on Tuesday. (Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury) The Virginia NAACP on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Shenandoah County School Board for what it called “reaffirming discrimination,” after the school system voted to rebrand schools with Confederate names in May. […]
By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – Virginia’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against a school district that restored the names of Confederate generals at two public schools. The move by Shenandoah County Public School sends a message of “Black inferiority and subjugation,” the complaint […]
The Virginia chapter of the NAACP and five students plan to file a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the school board in Shenandoah County after the six-person body approved a proposal restoring the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools. The lawsuit, first reported by NBC News, argues that the school board created “an […]
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the removal of Confederate statues in a recent interview, arguing that the people they honor may have had “other qualities.” Speaking Friday on the “Timcast IRL” podcast, Kennedy described a “visceral reaction to this destroying history.” “I don’t like it,” he told conservative podcaster Tim Pool. “I […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned the removal of Confederate statues, saying he had a “visceral reaction against” the destruction of monuments honoring southern leaders from the Civil War. Robert E. Lee, the top Confederate general, had “extraordinary qualities of leadership” that deserve to be celebrated, Kennedy said Friday […]
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has vetoed two bills that would have stripped tax exemptions for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that has opposed the removal of statues of southern state generals during the US civil war and other markers of the southern states’ attempt to secede from the Union in defense of […]
(NewsNation) — A school board in rural Virginia voted to reinstate the names of Confederate generals for two schools four years after the names had been removed, making it the first district in the nation to reverse course after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. On Friday, the Shenandoah County school board voted 5-1 to […]
The names of Confederate military leaders will be restored to two public schools following a school board vote in Shenandoah County, Virginia. By a 5-1 vote, the school board reversed a 2020 decision to change the names of schools, which will once again honor traitorous generals who fought for slavery: Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee […]
Four years after removing the names of Confederate leaders from two schools, a Virginia school board has decided to reverse that decision. In a 5-1 vote Friday, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to restore Mountain View High School’s name to Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary School to Ashby-Lee Elementary School. In […]
An all-white school board in Virginia has voted to restore the names of Robert E Lee and other Confederate military leaders to two public schools in a backlash to the racial reckoning that followed the police murder of George Floyd. The decision to restore the names of Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Turner Ashby was taken […]