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Tensions Rise in Virginia Schools Over Racial Issues

Eric Felten | March 7, 2023 (RealClearPolitics) — In January 2022, on his first day in office, Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, showed race antagonists the schoolhouse door. During the campaign, Youngkin had promised voters he would end what he called the “Inherently Divisive Policies, Programs, Training, and Curricula” centered on race. Conservative parents had

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Smearing a Hindu American Woman of Color as a ‘White Supremacist’

Asra Nomani | February 18, 2023 (RealClearPolitics) — Right after 11 a.m., Monday, Feb. 7, Democratic Virginia state Sen. Chap Petersen was walking up a hill to a session of the state legislature in Richmond when his phone rang. The caller was Rafi Ahmed, the Pakistan American cofounder of the Dar Al-Noor mosque in Manassas,

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