VCC Magazine Summer 2019

V irginia C apitol C onnections , S ummer 2019 3 Summer 2019 Volume 25 Number 3 • Editor-in-Chief –Bonnie Atwood • Assistant Editor –Hayley Allison • Student Editor –Cierra Parks • Staff –Aynae Simmons • Publisher –David Bailey Art Director –John Sours • School Distribution – schools@capitolsquare.com • Advertising – Ads@CapitolSquare.com • Printer –Wordsprint • Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine (ISSN 1076-4577) is published by: Virginia Capitol Connections • 1108 East Main Street • Suite 1200 • Richmond, Virginia 23219 • (804) 643-5554 • Copyright 2018, Virginia Capitol Connections, Inc. All rights reserved. The views expressed in the articles of Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine , a non-partisan publication, are not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. C O N T E N T S VIRGINIA CAPITOL CONNECTIONS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE On The Web www.vccqm.org 4 Publisher’s Introduction 5 The Past Begins With Equity Today 5 To Build a More Equal Virginia 6 Renaming a Boulevard 7 Felony disenfranchisement 8 Are we making progress? 9 A Northern View 10 The Capitol Calamity 10 Capitol Square Stories 11 Richmond’s Preservation Pioneer 12 George Wythe 13 The Bedford Boys 14 Earthly Departures 15 For History Lovers 16 Redistricting Reform 18 A Bruising Election Cycle 20 “I’ll beat you every time.” 21 Railroading 22 If Walls Could Talk 24 Veterans, military, and families 26 JLARC Studies page 5 Rasoul page 5 page 14 page 13 Bagby Henderson Ruff page 6 page 16 Gray Rush Race and Reconciliation (continued) and Virginia’s History