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Virginia’s top prosecutor announced Monday that the state has launched a civil rights investigation into a disturbing traffic stop in which a now-fired police officer pepper-sprayed a Black and ...
Justin Edward Fairfax (born February 17, 1979) [2] [3] is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the second African-American elected statewide in Virginia, following Douglas Wilder.
The Rutherford Institute is a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of civil liberties, human rights, and religious liberties.Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, the non-profit organization's motto is "It's our job to make the government play by the rules of the Constitution."
In June 2004, the FFRF challenged the constitutionality of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.The Foundation's complaint alleged that "the use of money appropriated by Congress under Article I, section 8, to fund conferences that various executive branch agencies hold to promote President Bush's 'Faith-Based and Community Initiatives '" conflicted with the First ...
Overall, there were 177,060 crimes reported in 2014 in Virginia, including 338 murders and homicides. [1] In 2012 Virginia had the 3rd-lowest rape rate by state after New Jersey and New York. [1] [2] The state has significantly lower crime rates than demographically similar neighboring states Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee. [3]
Under Youngkin’s model policies, Virginia public school students will be… Virginia school districts appear primed to buck governor’s proposed transgender policies Skip to main content
Robert Entman studied how television news impacted white views of blacks in his article Blacks in the News: Television, Modern Racism and Cultural Change, which examined television news stories from four Chicago stations during a 6-month period in 1989–90. He found that crime reporting depicted blacks as more dangerous—at the same time that ...
Gainesville Police Department Chief Lonnie Scott, right, gives a bouquet of roses to Rosa B. Williams, left, during the October meeting Wednesday of the Black on Black Crime Task Force. Williams ...