Washington, D.C: In February 2023, the Northern Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce (NVBCC) announced its Congressionally Directed Spending award in the amount of $300,000 in Federal funding from the Fiscal Year 2023 government spending legislation. Based on that award, NVBCC is prepared to announce the initiative that will be funded. On Wednesday, August 16, 2023, […]
RICHMOND — The Virginia Department of Education today released the final Model Policies on Ensuring Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools. After the 2021 Model Policies purposefully kept parents in the dark about their child’s health and wellbeing at school, the 2023 Model Policies restore parental rights in decision making […]
“Over 85% of Black children attending our nation’s public schools don’t know how to read,” according to Berkeley, California teacher Rosa Higgs. But she insists that she has the best solution. She is the first Black woman to create a Phonics program that works. Her Phonics workbook series called Read in 40 is especially designed to help […]
June 22, 2023 – Haymarket, Virginia – Conversations in the Community, Inc., has launched its summer reading experience with “Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom” by Ilyon Woo. “I am thrilled to launch our second summer reading experience with this amazing book that teaches us about a dark time in […]
Kevon Chisolm and his 16-year-old son, Kamari, the founders of Junior Wallstreeters, Inc. a non-profit, are offering online summer camps for children for the fourth year in a row. Their camps are great for preventing learning loss and offer fun environments for students to learn wealth-building concepts with other like-minded students. The course is called Junior […]
Behind the brand of the family mealtime staple is a husband-and-wife team who want to ensure Black students across the U.S. can thrive without financial barriers and systemic limitations. Claude and Crystal Booker created their timesaving seasoning packets, Booker’s Soul Food Starters, to help folks reconnect at the dinner table. Dedicated to bettering the community […]
by John Reid Last week, records from the Virginia Court Case Information website were posted on several Facebook groups. The records were related to Neabsco School District Board candidate Tracy Blake, stemming from 2006 – 2015. Some of the records that he pleaded guilty to include misdemeanor marijuana possession, carrying a concealed weapon, and driving […]
by Jennifer Roberts Almost every week, I read a local or national news story about an educator who has violated the trust of students and their families in one way or another and each time is equally disappointing. One story that comes to mind is the recent experience of 8th grade, Sidney Rousey, Jr, […]
On Saturday, community members, area disc golfers, volunteers, staff and leaders from both Prince William County Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, and NOVA Disc Golf Association who were involved with making the new disc golf course a reality, gathered for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Forest Valley Disc Golf course. The new 18-hole course, lauded […]
by Virginia Mercury Over a four-month period in 2022, Virginia leaders in education and workforce development held a series of meetings to provide recommendations to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration on improving state K-12 education. However, a report on recommendations from those meetings, which were convened to fulfill the requirements of a 2022 law known as House […]
