Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares spoke at Liberty University’s convocation Wednesday, talking to students about faith, heroes and following God s purpose for their lives.
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By Marian Wright Edelman
As a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’s wildest fantasies were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant and I would dream that some mighty man of great wealth built us a new school building or that our parents got together and surprised us with this grand new building and we had a big celebration and I even imagined that a great storm came through and blew down the main building and splattered the shacks to splinters and out of this wreckage rose this magnificent building and all the students were joyous and even the teachers cried . . .”
Seventy years after students at Robert Russa Moton High School went on strike to protest substandard conditions at the school, the museum that occupies the Farmville schoolhouse will hold a special celebration marking the event and raising awareness and funds for its current mission.
âMoton Live 2021,â a 10-hour virtual celebration that will be streamed via Facebook and YouTube, will be held on Friday, April 23, and will feature panel discussions, keynote speakers and musical entertainment. Gov. Ralph Northam and state Secretary of Education Atif Qarni will appear. Keynote speakers will be Virgil Wood, church leader and civil rights activist, and Margo Lee Shetterly, author of âHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.â