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. […]

Lawmakers in the State Senate have voted and it could be illegal to drive while holding a cellphone in Virginia. State lawmakers recently passed hands-free driving bills in the House and Senate. It had been illegal to text or email while driving in Virginia, but police say that was hard to enforce because they had […]

A former Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook staffer says Governor Ralph Northam likely knew about the racist photo. Northam denies knowing about a picture showing someone in blackface next to someone in a KKK hood on his 1984 yearbook page which just surfaced. Doctor William Elmwood worked on the layout for that year’s yearbook and […]

Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax says sex assault allegations against him are a smear. Big League Politics reports that a woman contacted their editor through a private Facebook post and said Fairfax assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. A woman approached the Washington Post in 2017 about this, but the Washington Post decided not […]

Virginia voters and not elected officials you decide…. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam says he won’t resign over a racist photo in his 1984 yearbook. The photo of someone in blackface next to someone in a KKK hood surfaced just a couple of days ago, and Northam’s story about it has been inconsistent. He said it […]

Eleven years before Rosa Park took her famous seat on that Birmingham bus, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy refused to move, sparking a landmark supreme court case. One summer morning in 1944 Irene Morgan boarded a Greyhound bus in Gloucester, Va, where she took her seat in the ‘colored’ section and settled in for her four-hour trip to Baltimore, Md. A short […]

What are lawmakers discussing at the 2019 Virginia General Assembly session? The late term abortion bill is dead this year, but the debate continues between democrats and republicans. Earlier this week, a video of Delegate Kathy Tran admitting that her bill would allow a woman going into labor to get an abortion if just one […]

I am Miss Community Clovia and sometimes you just have to encourage yourself. However, I want to share a word of encouragement with you, by way of, the Clo-ism… In this season of catching something, Be infected with greatness!

Miss Community Clovia is “Keep An Eye on G-A” and here’s the latest on the Virginia smoking bill: A bill to raise the legal age of smoking is making progress. Tuesday night, the state Senate voted 32-to-eight to raise the age to legally buy tobacco products and vape products to 21. The bill now heads […]

Virginia lawmakers on the Senate Courts of Justice committee will hear the Senate bill (sb1437) today at 4 p.m. in Senate room A. Description Parole; exception to limitation on the application of parole statutes; investigations and reports by probation officers. Provides that a person is entitled to parole who was sentenced by a jury prior […]