School from ‘Remember the Titans’ Could Be Renamed After Kamala Harris, George Floyd, or Ruth Bader Ginsberg
15 Jan 2021
T.C. Williams High School, which became nationally renowned as the high school in the 2000 Disney football film,
Remember The Titans, may be renamed “Kamala Harris High School,” according to reports.
The Alexandria City School Board, which administers T.C. Williams High, voted unanimously to delete the school’s name because Thomas Chambliss Williams, a local school superintendent for three decades starting in the 1930s, was also well-known as a Virginia segregationist.
According to
Alexandria Living, the school board insisted that Williams was a “staunch segregationist whose views could not have been more inconsistent with the vibrant, diverse, and inclusive place we know today.”
The school is best known for inspiring the 2000 football film “Remember the Titans;” Titan High School was among the proposed names.
Members of the school board voted unanimously in November to rename the school after something other than Williams, who was the superintendent of the Alexandria public school system for several decades beginning in the 1930s and opposed integrating schools after the landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. the Board of Education.
“This is a historic moment for everybody,” current Superintendent Gregory C. Hutchings Jr., who is Black, told reporters in November. “For many years, people have been trying to change the name of T.C. Williams, and they really have not been successful.”
Located in the neighborhood of Old Donation Farm, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is a quaint, historical brick house now called the Ferry Plantation House, which while very charming might be easy to miss among all of the historical buildings in the area, but this piece of land has a long history. The land where the house stands once belonged to the Chesepian Indians up until the early 1600s, after which it became a prosperous plantation and in 1642 it became an important stop along a new ferry service along the Lynnhaven River. The spot was the location of the Princess Anne County courthouse, after which in 1751 the site was used to build an opulent mansion for a wealthy landowner named William Walke, earning the house the name “Walke Mansion.” This mansion stood until a fire destroyed it in 1828, and it would then be rebuilt using salvaged bricks from the fire as a residence for Charles Fleming McIntosh, who was the Captain of the Confederate Navy’s
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Radiation Hell: Russia Has Had Horrific Submarine Disasters
The Soviet and later Russian Navy have unfortunately seen more than their fair share of modern submarine disasters.
Here s What You Need to Remember: While some of the accidents could be blamed on the lax safety features of Cold War-era Soviet submarines, since 2000 the Russian Navy has also seen several submarine disasters, including some in port. Among the first was also one of the worst, when in August 2000 the nuclear-powered
Kursksank in the Barents Sea due to an explosion in its torpedo room, which killed all 118 of its crew.
Last year 14 Russian sailors were killed when a fire broke out on a secret Russian submarine. The boat was identified as