Tag: Daily Progress

  • For more than two centuries, many African Americans left their families and identities behind, crossing into white society as a way of securing freedom, self-preservation and economic advancement, two university professors who have researched the phenomenon told a Monticello audience on Saturday.

  • Opinion/Commentary: The facts behind loving, law, and ‘Loving’ The Daily Progress Charlottesville, Virginia 2016-11-13 Jeff E. Schapiro, Politics columnist Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia Focus Features via AP Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga protray an interracial couple from Virginia whose romance and marraiage made history. The story or Richard and Mildred Loving is told, Hollywood-style in…