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Welcome to the best opinion pieces of the week from News From The States. Our commentary includes our own journalists from across our extensive network as well as outside voices to bring a wide range of perspectives and ideas. In addition to the sampling below, you can look through all our commentary here.

 

 TOP COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK 

Once a dead end, a Richmond cemetery earns new respect

by Samantha Willis | Virginia Mercury

 
A former gas station was built atop part of the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground, which gained new recognition from city and state officials in 2022. ​​​​​​​(Lenora McQueen)

A former gas station was built atop part of the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground, which gained new recognition from city and state officials in 2022.
(Lenora McQueen)

On Jan. 20, the federal government reopened historic review of the 123-mile Washington, DC to Richmond (DC2RVA) segment of the proposed Southeast High-Speed Rail project, which when complete will increase intercity passenger rail travel throughout the southeast region. Initially, the railway was planned to be built through one of the largest cemeteries for enslaved people in America, the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground. Plans, apparently, have changed. 

It’s been nearly four years since I wrote about the cemetery, then known as Richmond’s Grave Yard for Free People of Color and Slaves, a formerly unrecognized resting place of over 20,000 Black people in the belly of what was once the nation’s second-largest slave trading epicenter. Some things have changed; many things haven’t.

 

Let students put whatever name they want on their diplomas

by Terrence T. McDonald | New Jersey Monitor

 

A Kansas woman killed her abuser. At every level, in every instance, the system failed her.

by Clay Wirestone | Kansas Reflector

 

Dear Gov: Suppressing Black people (like kids in AP) is a bad look outside the Fox News fever swamp

by Diane Roberts | Florida Phoenix

 

Far right just wants a fight over COVID, not facts

by Greg LaRose | Louisiana Illuminator

 

Oversight will never fix what’s wrong with policing

by Quentin Young | Colorado Newsline

 

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