According to the Associated Press, a conservative legal group is suing a northern Virginia school district for discriminating against Asian Americans by overhauling the admissions process at a selective public high school to recruit more Black and Hispanic students. The Pacific Legal Foundation is holding a press conference Wednesday morning to discuss a lawsuit against […]
Last week Democrats in the House and Senate, led by a joint resolution called the Abolition Amendment, began discussions on removing the “punishment” clause from the 13th Amendment. The amendment, which formally ended the practice of slavery in 1865, has kept in it a provision that allows for those imprisoned to be utilized for cheap […]
Source: covidtracking.com/race According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies around the country, Blacks, Latinx and Indigenous people are more likely to not only contract the virus, but also die as a result of inequality of access to medical facilities and treatment. As the country begins to enter the cold and […]
Friday night, our country lost one of its greatest leaders. Congressman John Lewis, the last of the Big Six, who, along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, and Whitney Young, fought for the many victories of the Civil Rights Movement. Since then, a lot of people have been […]
Delegate Jay Jones (D-Norfolk) announced in a video on Monday that he is running for Virginia Attorney General in 2021 in a bid to become the first Black person in the Commonwealth to hold the position. Jones, a lawyer and alumnus of William & Mary and UVA, was first elected to the House of Delegates […]
As Dr. Angela Davis famously said, “In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” The PW Perspective is the only anti-racist news publication in Northern Virginia. Out of dozens that publish online or in print, we are the only one that is willing to proudly proclaim that we […]
The Dumfries Town Council on Tuesday passed two resolutions, one condemning systemic racism and one that permanently established Juneteenth as an official calendar holiday for the town. These resolutions come at a time of national unrest as racial issues are taking national headlines after the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers and […]
State Senator Jennifer McClellan announced her for Virginia governor on Thursday, running to be elected as the first Black woman to serve as governor in American history. McClellan (D-Richmond) is the second Black woman to begin campaigning for governor of Virginia after Delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy launched her campaign last month. “I come from a […]
Governor Ralph Northam announced on Tuesday that he intends to mark Juneteenth as a permanent paid state holiday, starting by giving state employees a day off this Friday, June 19. Juneteenth is the oldest known commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, and it is usually noted in Virginia with a Proclamation. […]
Ann Wheeler, Chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors (BOCS) and Dr. Babur Lateef, Chair of the Prince William County School Board held a virtual event on Tuesday in order to connect with and hear from local students. The event, titled “PWC Youth in Conversation with the Chairs”, featured Wheeler and Lateef speaking […]
