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A Fairfax behavioral therapist is accused of raping multiple patients. The Washington Post reports that in February, 60 year-old Bernard Betts-King was charged with raping two women with intellectual disabilities. He was arrested after they gave birth. Now, Fairfax police are looking into older sexual assault cases they think may have ties to Betts-King. Police […]
Prince George County, VA -One of the people injured in the deadly Prince George County bus crash is suing. The crash happened earlier this month when a Tao’s Travel Inc. bus headed to New York overturned on I-95 killing two people and injuring dozens more. Forty year-old Shivon Dollar-Moore, of New York, filed a ten-million-dollar […]
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has signed a couple of bills relating to the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church. The bills he signed yesterday require religious officials to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement. However, there is an exemption where clergy members don’t have to report something if confidentiality is required, like […]
The Virginia General Assembly will reconvene on April 3, 2019 to take up Governor Northam’s actions on amendments to the budget bill. New Virginia Laws will go into effect on July 1, 2019. Governor Northam is revisiting efforts to end driver’s license suspensions over unpaid court fines. He added on an amendment to the budget […]
The Richmond School Board is cutting nearly 50 office jobs. At Monday night’s meeting, they voted to approve a budget that will eliminate dozens of positions from the district’s central office. Superintendent Jason Kamras said they cut 13-million-dollars from the proposed 300-million-dollar budget while creating more teaching jobs and putting more money towards classrooms. He […]
The regular Virginia General assembly has concluded for 2019 and political experts think the number of scandals facing high-ranking Democrats could impact the upcoming election. Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring both admitted to wearing blackface in college, and Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax faces sexual assault allegations by two women. All three are […]
Barbara Johns, a sixteen year old student, staged a strike at Robert Russa Moton High School because of its deplorable conditions. One student John Stokes assisted Johns in the effort in 1951. He shares his story with me. John Stokes grew up in the Jim Crow South. He attended Robert Russa Moton High School in […]
Washington’s Birthday, known today as Presidents Day, began as a federal holiday to honor George Washington’s birthday, the first president of the United States of America. The federal holiday was implemented by an Act of Congress in 1879 for government offices in Washington, DC and then expanded to all federal offices in 1885. The federal […]
Prominent black leaders in Virginia want to give Governor Ralph Northam a second chance. For more than a week now, Governor Northam has come under fire locally and nationally for a racist photo that appeared on his 1984 yearbook page. Yesterday, the governor found some allies. Five prominent figures in the Commonwealth’s black community spoke […]
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell says we are a nation of second chances. McDonnell did not call for Governor Northam’s resignation over the racist picture on his 1984 yearbook page. McDonnell said as someone familiar to controversy for his corruption conviction and successful appeal, the question is can Northam be an effective leader for Virginia. […]
Virginia House Speaker Kirk Cox says he’s shocked by the admission that Attorney General Mark Herring dressed up in blackface. Just days ago, Herring called on Governor Ralph Northam to retire over a racist photo from his yearbook page. Herring’s now admitted to actually wearing blackface. He has apologized, but he has not stepped down. […]
The third top Virginia elected official has admitted to wearing blackface while in college. Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring said that he wore blackface in the 80s when he dressed up as a rapper at a party. He said he was 19, he and some friends in college wanted to dress up as rappers they […]