Throughout this recent climate, people are removing the wall of racial division, instead creating a bridge towards understanding, healing and unity. Whether it’s through participation at marches, or just sitting down and having a conversation with one another, the days of cultural isolation are slowly fading away to a time of growing in friendship across […]
On July 24, 2020, InsideNOVA published an unsigned editorial claiming that three prominent women of color seeking Democratic nomination for statewide office do not have the “experience” necessary for the job. It seems every time a woman or a person of color seeks high office, those in power expend a considerable amount of energy wringing […]
The Fairfax County school board voted unanimously on Thursday evening to rename Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, Virginia, after the late Civil Rights icon Congressman John Lewis. The new name, which was advocated for by members of the Fairfax NAACP Chapter, will take effect with the start of the upcoming school year. Other […]
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 […]
Article co-written by Aneesa Johnson Four protesters were detained and three of them arrested at around 1 p.m. at the McCoart building on Tuesday after two agitators approached the protestors and an altercation took place between the groups. Protesters were present to lobby the Prince William Board of County Supervisors (BOCS) to defund the police […]
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 name Stonewall Jackson invokes several memories, many of them painful ones. For the citizens of Manassas, the representation of Jackson is being challenged with a petition to have it removed. But that is not the only monument of the Confederate general that may be changed, as several people came together in front of Stonewall […]
Yesterday the McCoart Building hosted a unified voice of the black and brown communities as they came together for the Black Lives Matter rally in Woodbridge. Led by Aeshah Sheikh, in conjunction with CASA, it was an amalgamation of generational voices, all shouting “Black Lives Matter,” and “Si Se Puede.” A multitude of signs were […]
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. […]
Earlier this week the Prince William County School Board passed historic climate legislation. The passing of Action 21.02 not only officially recognizes the threat of climate change but focuses on developing netzero schools and replacing fossil fuel buses with electric buses among other changes. In addition to the climate resolution, two other resolutions were unanimously […]
