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January 18, 2021

Area Black leaders explain how King’s words are as crucial as ever in 2021

By Bridget Manley, Publisher

For Black activists and leaders in the Valley, there’s more work the country must do toward achieving equality in America — that dream of which Martin Luther King, Jr. famously spoke. And that work continues today, as it did yesterday and will tomorrow in the far-too-slow bend toward justice.

September 28, 2020

New historical marker on Court Square tells story of Charlotte Harris’ lynching

By Mike Tripp, Contributor

Law enforcement dragged Charlotte Harris from a friend’s home in Albemarle County in March of 1878. They took her back to Rockingham County to face a preliminary hearing, resulting in an order she be taken to the county jail in Harrisonburg. Because that was 15 miles distant, they decided to wait until morning.