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Astronaut & airmen inspire our next explorers
The Virginia Air & Space Center's "Rockets to Racecars" program includes a visit from three of the original Tuskegee Airmen and astronaut Alvin "Al" Drew Jr.
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Portsmouth had stopovers on the road to freedom
Part of Portsmouth’s history is the role it played in the Underground Railroad, a network of safe places from the South to the North that runaway slaves used to escape to freedom.
Courage
Student who braved mobs to go to school still teaches
Ruby Bridges, whose image was captured in a Norman Rockwell painting about the hate surrounding school integration, told an Old Dominion University audience Monday night that racism will stop only when adults stop teaching it.
LOCAL CALENDAR:See what Hampton Roads has in store for Black History Month
STATEWIDE CALENDAR:Find Black History events in Virginia
HELA CELL HISTORYCancer cells killed Virginia-born Henrietta Lacks. Then they made her immortal.
MASSIVE RESISTANCEA special report recounting Virginia closing six of Norfolk's public schools in 1958
THE NEW CANAAN EXPERIMENTIn 1969, 10 NSU students taught in the nearly all-white Connecticut schools
TIMELINE:An interactive look at milestones in Black History
- Lunch counter sit-ins: 50 years later
- Respected Suffolk surgeon takes prestigious position
- Follow the trail of the underground railroad through Hampton Roads
- His basketball record didn't make history in Virginia
- Did King pen 'I Have a Dream' in Gloucester?
- Showdown over Norfolk’s segregated schools changed lives forever
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