Norfolk State president speaks at CNU event honoring MLK, as CNU works toward more inclusive environment

Norfolk State University President Javaune Adams-Gaston frequently makes the drive from Norfolk to Richmond. Along the way, she sees cotton fields where, generations back, enslaved people worked the land. “Something physically happens to me when I pass those cotton fields,” she said during a speech at Christopher Newport University Thursday. “I feel the ancestors and the pain they had to ...

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