by James Ritch | Sep 30, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — A group of around two dozen NASA Wallops Flight Facility employees and their supporters demonstrated outside the facility’s main gate Wednesday morning to protest a mandate saying federal employees and contractors must be vaccinated against COVID-19....
by James Ritch | Jun 11, 2020 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – A crowd of protesters who gathered in Exmore Town Park last Saturday evening stood silently for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time that three Minneapolis police officers allowed a fourth to hold his knee on the neck of George Floyd,...
by James Ritch | Jun 4, 2020 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The death of George Floyd, a black man from Minneapolis, Minn., who suffered at the hands of city police, has spawned protests across the country, including on the Eastern Shore. Kaliyah Diamond Weatherly, of Cape Charles, is the organizer of...
by James Ritch | Dec 30, 2019 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — More than three dozen people marched against violence on a rainy Sunday in Onancock. Organized by minister Quintavion Washington, the march from near the edge of town to the gazebo downtown caught the attention of passersby, one of whom rolled...
