Tag: Roanoke Times

  • Good riddance to RU’s Powell Hall The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2010-09-21 Christina Nuckols, Editorial Page Editor One can, if optimistically predisposed to believe in the inherent honesty and good-natured character of people, accept the story of why Radford University’s arts and music building still bore the name of John Powell until last week. One…

  • We biracials can claim a unique role in race dialogue The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2013-07-28 Lucinda Roy, Alumni Distinguished Professor of English Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Following a keynote on diversity I delivered recently, a woman approached me and commented on the fact that I had referred to myself as biracial. She…