Following extensive renovations, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture is reopening to the public May 14 and 15 with free admission, live music and family activities.
Virginia Beach workers organize for better pay
As we go to press, city workers in Virginia Beach are preparing to hold a press conference and public speak-out before raising job-related demands April 20 at a city council budget hearing.
Virginia tribe regains sacred ground
Some 350 years after being driven off their land by white settlers, the Rappahannock Tribe has regained ownership of more than 460 acres of ancestral homeland along its namesake river in the Northern Neck.
Israeli forces carry out brutal assault on al-Aqsa mosque
On April 15, Israel carried out a violent assault on Palestinians congregating at the al-Aqsa masjid in East Jerusalem, the third holiest site for followers of Islam. It was a Friday, the Muslim day of worship, in the holy month of Ramadan.
Northern Virginia coalition fights to protect endangered cemeteries
An organization called the Coalition to Save Historic Thoroughfare has announced plans to protest what it says is the ongoing desecration of Black and indigenous cemeteries in Thoroughfare, an unincorporated community in western Prince William County in Northern Virginia.
America’s ballooning military budget is a boondoggle for Virginia’s taxpayers
Last month, President Biden proposed ratcheting up the Pentagon budget to $770 billion, far surpassing Trump’s sky-high military spending. An editorial by Greta Zarro.
Letters to the Editor: The burden is our reality
A letter to the editor from D. Ray Thomas, in which he contemplates prison reform and the relationship between activists inside and outside of the system.
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