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Race and Higher Education
Meet investigative journalists Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen with the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO. They are the authors of "Erasing the Black Spot: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood". The article centers on the use of eminent domain to destroy a black middle-class neighborhood in Newport News to build a new two-year public college as a branch of the William and Mary college system - today known as Christopher Newport University. But CNU is not alone, other public Virginia colleges such as ODU and UVA used similar practices to uproot…
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