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Contributor @MercuryVirginia. Former columnist, The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. D.C. native, Howard U. grad. Husband, father & creaky-kneed ex-b-ball player.
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Nixing Black hero’s name from Va.-built aircraft carrier is offensive, affront to military members Original

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By Roger Chesley Verified
| The Virginia Mercury
It’s not just that the administration of President Donald Trump, who’s proved repeatedly that he’s racist, wants to remove the name of Pearl Harbor hero Doris “Dorie” Miller from an aircraft carrier under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding – and name it for Trump, according to a published report. The USS Doris Miller would be the first carrier named for a Black person. No carrier has been named for a sitting president, CNN reported recently.
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November glut of school referendums signals necessity of taxing option in Virginia Original

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By Roger Chesley Verified
| The Virginia Mercury
If you wondered whether localities across Virginia desperately need another way to raise money to build new schools, take a look at the dozens of communities that will hold voter referendums in November. Cardinal News recently reported that more than 40 localities plan referendums this fall seeking a 1% sales tax increase for school construction and major renovations. Many of those school divisions are small and rural. Some are urban like Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News.
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Voting rights anniversary spotlights America’s enduring anti-Black contempt

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By Roger Chesley Verified
| Ohio Capital Journal
Civil rights stalwarts, politicians and academics held a requiem for the on its 61st anniversary last week, lamenting the neutering of a law that had propelled African Americans – especially in the South – into choosing their own leaders without fear of violence, murder or lesser polling place obstacles. Activists didn’t call it a “funeral.” Yet no one underplayed the latest reversal of progress for Blacks, Latinos and other people of color in this nation’s long, tortured and oft-racist history.
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