NORFOLK, Va. — Vivian Monroe-Hester’s high school textbooks harbored hatred in their margins. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As a teenager at the all-black Booker T. Washington High School in segregated, 1960s-era Virginia, Monroe-Hester studied from used books passed along by white high schools. White students, knowing the texts’ final destination, scrawled their animus atop pictures, beneath paragraphs, […]
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[NORFOLK] Booker T. Washington High School Ground Breaking On New Building
Recently, Booker T. Washington High School celebrated a big milestone with a festive groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction on a new $51.7 million campus said to be ready to move into in the next one to two years.
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[NORFOLK] Nine-Year-Old Spreads Joy To Other Girls
A story that made the national evening news surrounds the kindness of a 9-year-old local girl. Gianni Graham, of Norfolk, decided, last Christmas, that she wanted every girl who was in foster care or shelters to have a doll as her personal friend. Her goal was to collect 1000 Barbie dolls and distribute them to agencies that assist girls needing a “friend.” Donors from all over the world liked what Gianni was doing and lent support by sending dolls to her “Every Doll Deserves a Doll” campaign.
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