An effort to rename Henrico County’s Harry F. Byrd Middle School because of the
namesake’s leadership in rejecting racial integration of schools has gathered
about 800 signatures.
The historic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church known as the “Cathedral of the
Confederacy” has begun removing all images of the Confederate flag from within
its walls.
A contentious proposal to build a Dollar General store along Mountain Road in
western Henrico County will come before the Planning Commission at its Dec. 10
meeting after the commission
Henrico County Public Schools officials identified a student believed to be
responsible and are working to take disciplinary actions, said School Board
Chairman John W. Montgomery Jr.
The William Byrd Community House, an influential force for early childhood
education and helping low-income families, is in the process of shutting down,
according to the organization’s former executive director.
Dr. James, the seventh president of Virginia Union University from 1970 to 1979,
has died at the age of 92. Contemporaries credit him as a force for bringing the
races
Her performance career spanned Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia and the occasional
tour back in the United States, prompting the Los Angeles Sentinel to remark in
1957 that Lucretia West, “during recent