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Digital editors and other staffers on the RFM team post content from resources in the Richmond region.

A Richmond, Virginia, native is serving with the U.S. Navy’s cutting-edge maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft squadron in Jacksonville, Florida. Petty Officer 1st Class Delford Lassiter joined the Navy seventeen…

The Virginia Constitution of 1869 established a statewide system of free public schools. The schools evolved in the 1900s with both Jim Crow restrictions and Progressive Era reforms. Even progressive movements, though, were rife with racism, and Black activists rarely had a…