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With COVID-19, we are on our own, by Glenn Ellis

As of now, there is no clear proof that the antibodies that develop after being infected with COVID-19 offer any protection from future infections.

Get together, brothers and sisters, by Barbara Reynolds

Sexism is raising its ugly head again, and this time it is not just the white men who trashed Hillary Clinton in 2016. This time, the rumblings are coming from some Black men. And their target is U.S. Sen. Kamala …

Black women leading, by Marc H. Morial

The selection of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris to be the Democratic vice presidential nominee represents many “firsts” — the first Black woman to be nominated on a major party ticket. The first vice presidential candidate of South Asian descent. The …

Laws as weapons of the unjust, by Oscar H. Blayton

We read in disbelief that a Black man who has already spent almost 23 years in a Louisiana prison for stealing a pair of garden clippers has now been denied any measure of mercy and must spend the rest of …

Black women rising despite decades of bias, by Julianne Malveaux

Women won the right to vote a century ago. On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment passed. The white women’s equal rights struggle began in 1776, though, when Abigail Adams, the wife of our second president and member of the …

Protection against predatory lending gone, by Charlene Crowell

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc throughout the country, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently took an ill-advised and untimely action.

Evictions will deepen U.S. economic crisis, by Marc H. Morial

“The issue of inability to pay, poverty and unemployment – that existed pre-COVID-19. The difference between now and then is that the pandemic has shifted the line of poverty. There are more people at risk than before.”— Attorney Raphael Ramos …

One more reason to vote, by Dr. E. Faye Williams

By the time you read this, it no longer will be breaking news that one of the cancers that has plagued U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has returned.

Restore the Voting Rights Act, by Marc H. Morial

“Although the court did not deny that voter discrimination still exists, it gutted the most powerful tool this nation has ever had to stop discriminatory voting practices from becoming law. Those justices were never beaten or jailed for trying to …

There’s no question, by Dr. E. Faye Williams

Jane Elliott said, “If we didn’t have all those years when Black lives didn’t matter, we wouldn’t have to have a Black Lives Matter movement now.”

Keeping land in the family, by Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan and Parker C. Agelasto

As Virginia and America continue the long overdue work of addressing structural inequity, our Commonwealth has taken one significant step toward fixing a leading cause of loss of land and wealth for African-Americans.

When John Lewis met Malcolm X in Kenya, by A. Peter Bailey

In his book, “Malcolm X: The FBI File,” Dr. Clayborne Carson wrote about a first-time meeting between Brother Malcolm X and a young John Lewis while both were traveling in Africa in October 1964.

The enemy within, by Julianne Malveaux

At least six Black children were killed during the “Fourth of You Lie” weekend. They weren’t doing anything wrong, just attending a community picnic, or going to visit a grandmother, or riding in a car.

Rezoning best for schools, by Danielle M. Greene

Headlines have ricocheted across the nation about Richmond City Council’s support for removing the Confederate monuments.

Automatic expungements can help remove barriers by Mayor Levar M. Stoney

Unjust and racist policies continuously serve as a barrier to progress for our Black and brown communities, creating a stifling environment for socioeconomic mobility that makes it less and less likely for each generation to be better off than the …