JFC: Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) admitted he once appeared in blackface, plunging the state Democratic Party further into chaos on Wednesday. Herring’s confession that he dressed in b
Yes, yes, everyone wants to obsess about the Democratic presidential nomination. Right now, it’s fun to poke at clown car candidates such as Julian Castro and Tulsi Gabbard; the first an empty s
Ed Gillespie can die in a fire. NBC calls #VAGOV for Ralph Northam. Looking like solid win tonight for VA Dems across the board. — Daily Kos Elections (@DKElections) November 8, 2017 Democrats a
George Wallace was a terrible human being. In his early career as a judge, he had a reputation for treating African-American lawyers in his courtroom with an unheard of amount of respect, even as he w
Above: The Dream of the Republican Party Virginia Republicans double down on their commitment to child labor at the same time that it moves the official policy of the national GOP: In an unrecorded pa
Not a total victory for justice, but I don’t really mind how Alexandria, Virginia is dealing with its plethora of streets and statues named for Confederates. Basically, it’s renaming Jeffe
Alan Taylor’s Pulitzer Prize winning history of slavery in Virginia during the American Revolution and Early Republic is truly outstanding. The American Revolution created a rhetoric of equality
So I’m at the Fighting Inequality conference in DC, which is mostly a labor history conference. I see a paper by a young scholar you many know named Steven Attewell and it’s really good. I