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
World Values Network Launches $2.5 Million Fund To Spread Shared Values Message
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Robert Smith and Hope Dworaczyk Smith attend the Unlikely Heroes 4th Annual Recognizing Heroes Charity Benefit at The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas on November 12, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Peter Larsen/Getty Images for Unlikely Heroes)
The World Values Network (WVN) announced on Feb. 16 that it will launch a global multi-media project, funded by Hope and Robert F. Smith. The project will involve short-form videos featuring world leaders, influencers, celebrities and sports heroes, who will discuss the core values that have motivated their work. The videos will be distributed initially via social media platforms.
Wood, a Virginia native who attended Hillsboro School in Crozet and Albemarle Training School in Charlottesville, pursued a doctorate in education at Harvard University before becoming a community organizer for Virginia during the historic 1963 March on Washington.