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  • Organizers hold first 'March on Richmond'

    09/01/2013 6:48:22 AM PDT · by kevcol · 14 replies
    NBC 12 ^ | August 31, 2013 | Geneva Smith
    Dozens of people took to the streets and had their very first March on Richmond Saturday morning. This comes after thousands gathered for the March on Washington this past week. Advocates who rallied for jobs and freedom say change starts at the local level. For these demonstrators, it's all about taking action and securing the future for generations to come. "We can win ladies and gentlemen if you participate," Richmond NAACP Director, King Salim Khalfani.
  • NAACP decries Va. group’s plan to fly huge Confederate flag near I-95

    08/08/2013 6:17:07 AM PDT · by kevcol · 615 replies
    Washington Times ^ | August 7, 2013 | Cheryl K. Chumley
    The NAACP has come forward in staunch opposition and anger about a heritage group’s plans to fly a 10-by-15-foot Confederate flag on a 50-foot pole south of Richmond, Va. — large enough to be seen from the corridor’s main highway, Interstate 95. The Virginia Flaggers say it’s to show respect for those on the South’s side who fought and died during the Civil War . . . But the NAACP sees differently. Virginia chapter executive director King Salim Khalfani told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the flag would show Richmond as a “backwater, trailer park, hick town.”