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Tracing The Travails of Our Next-Door Neighbor 23 October 2022 For years, these pages have sought to report objectively about the recurring onslaught on the history, values and traditions of Washington and Lee University. We believe the ongoing attempt to expunge its legacy will have profound effects on its ability to survive as the extraordinary…

VMI Two Years After Ralph Northam’s October 17, 2020 Letter The Roanoke Star-News For those who’ve forgotten when Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its “close cousin,” Diversity-Inclusion-Equity (DIE) were still relatively unknown, it was early 2019 when Virginia’s previous governor, Ralph Northam, came within a political heartbeat of being forced from office when his blackface…

Cancel Culture Strikes Nearby A Family Member Responds To Denaming 16 October 2022 This past week the endemic forces of higher education Cancel Culture dropped an unexpected bomb at nearby University of Richmond.  We learned about it through receipt of a copy of a reply letter from Robert C. Smith, the double great grandson of…

14 August 2022 As a Lexington native, I was very interested in your recent article entitled, “Unheard Voices of Black Lexington.”  Congratulations to all who were involved in that historic project.  I delivered the Richmond Times-Dispatch to residents of Diamond Hill community in 1939-40. In that same article, quoting Eric Wilson, executive director of the…