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INSIDE Va. school segregation deepens - 2 Contact tracing vital in Virginia - 3 COVID-19 vaccines appear safe - 4 New legislation for homeless vets
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The DNA of a Black Woman CHUCK RICHARDSON PERSPECTIVE
TEWire - There is something magical about a fearless, intelligent, incorruptible black woman. A woman willing to sacrifice and face any obstacle she must for a greater cause than herself. Black women have been, and continue to be, the crucible of fortitude. Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer and thousands beside them have been the bedrock of AfricanAmerican progress. I realized in my late 20s that if you want to get it done – you better have black women involved. That was when I, in 1977, ran for and won a seat on the first majority Black city council in Richmond, Va. It was the determination of Black women, some more than twice my age, that made the history possible. When those Black women spoke, weathered by storms of racism, deprivation and personal abuses, it changed the atmosphere. A crowd of timid, doubtful or unfocused lambs became ferocious lions. People today might speak of my legacy of achievements in Richmond, but they don’t know the source of my confidence. I can’t recall the number of times strong black women lifted me and forged new inspiration. From the late 70s to the early nineties, I won nine consecutive reelections. Any success reached by fighting the good fight, including my relentless efforts over two decades to remove the Confederate monuments on Monument Avenue, were only possible because of the victories won for me by these women. Black men in my campaigns were strong and forceful, the physical image the organization needed, I
L-R - Vice President-elect Kamala Harris; former Atlanta First Lady Valerie Jackson Richardson; democratic activist Stacey Abrams. don’t deny that. But diligence was more often worn by the women. I remember one election when I needed 20 new people registered as voters in each precinct. The young volunteers would bring back three or four and a handful of excuses. But there were elder women, some who did not walk easily, who would return with the full number. One of them said to a young person, “You don’t win elections with good excuses – you need voters!” Women like Bessie Jones, Elaine Dunn or Luetta B. Wooldridge, who were managers and coordinators for my campaigns. And they stood with me in difficult times when very few had the will. Rev. Sarah Goshen, an older Black woman with a calm but convincing demeanor, stood up in a storm of attacks on my character during a controversial and profound personal
battle. She admonished the men who chose to disregard my history of service to my country, and more directly, to the African-Americans in Richmond. Rev. Goshen stood with the same solidarity and courage that defined her fore mothers, “Don’t abandon the bridge that brung you ‘cross!” she demanded. My spirit rose to the ceiling. “Don’t abandon the bridge that brung you 'cross.” It has indeed been a bridge, one more river to cross for Black Americans. Twohundred fifty years of slavery and Jim Crow seems to have developed a certain ‘DNA’ in Black women. Because, to watch as your child is torn away, or your man absolutely emasculated and denied any dignity, to have your body raped and to endure a brutalized life of labor, something had to evolve in the ‘DNA’ of Black women. A new measure of courage, strength, dignity and faith saved
them; the crucible of fortitude. They marched on and we march on today. America is more divided perhaps since slavery itself. But Black women have our backs, still enduring, fighting the good fight. Women like my own sister, Valerie Richardson Jackson, the former first lady of Atlanta, who persevered with myself as one of the first students integrating our high school. Becoming one of the first black women to attend the Wharton School of Business (now led by a black woman), working and paying her way through, earning her M.B.A. She went on to market General Foods products and gained a regional role at Trans World Airlines corporate headquarters in New York. Because a strong, smart black woman is not to be passed over, she won the heart of and married a man who was certainly the most consequential politician in the history of Atlanta: Mayor Maynard Jackson. Maynard always said of Valerie, “She enables me.” The nation has recently come to know two more amazing Black women: Democratic activist, Stacey Abrams, and Sen. Kamala Harris; now Vice President-elect. Stacey Abrams showed her ability early, in front of the very Atlanta City Hall that Maynard occupied. She led a large group of university students calling on the mayor to address student issues. Maynard was impressed and invited her to meet with him. Afterward, he gave Abrams her first job in politics. The rest is history: a heroic race for governor of Georgia, and a voter registration movement that is unprecedented, and driving the numbers to heights heretofore unseen - a democratic movement that has already become a model for the nation.
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Report: School segregation by race and poverty is deepening in Virginia School segregation by race and poverty is deepening in Virginia, but state and local policy measures could lead to more integration and better educational opportunities, according to a new report by researchers at the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State. The report, “School Segregation by Boundary Line in Virginia: Scope, Significance and State Policy Solutions,” explores the landscape of school segregation in Virginia and lays out a variety of state-level policy recommendations designed to help local divisions better understand and address the role boundaries play in structuring segregation. “School boundaries matter. The lines separating school districts and school communities within those districts continue to shape racial and economic segregation and educational opportunity. They are also subject to change, and with some regularity,” said Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ph.D., an associate professor at the VCU School of Education. “Each process related to change offers school officials a chance to confront segregation and inequality — or make it worse.” “In this report, we’re trying to think about both the local level and the state level simultaneously in terms of how to make policy to support reducing segregation. Virginia is a really opportune place to do that because of its diversity. It can and should be a model for other states to constructively address changing demographics and to reduce inequality,” said Penn State professor Erica Frankenberg, Ed.D., director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights. The report reveals that segregation among schools in the same division
Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni contributes to half or more of all multiracial school segregation in Virginia’s metropolitan regions, including central Virginia (56 percent), Tidewater (50 percent) and Northern Virginia (63 percent). It also found that school division boundaries surrounding independent cities are related to higher school segregation across Virginia’s rural and metro regions. The report makes several state policy recommendations for new training, research and data collection related to segregation. It also calls for Virginia to develop a definition of school segregation, followed by new reporting, monitoring and enforcement. Among the report’s proposed policies to address school segregation are recommendations to: · Use the state bully pulpit to amplify the importance of reducing school segregation and promoting integration for students and communities. · Establish an office or department in the Virginia Department of Education to support voluntary integration and reduce segregation within and among schools. · Establish certification requirements for superintendents, school boards, principals and
teachers related to school segregation and integration. · Authorize new state data collection for public use related to school attendance boundaries. As part of Virginia's required updates to its Every Student Succeeds Act plan, the state should consider including school segregation and integration as part of its accountability measures. · Implement a Implement a grant program to support voluntary integration. · Study, define, evaluate and address racial/ethnic and economic school segregation. · Increase school board capacity to address segregation as part of rezoning processes. “School segregation is a fundamental barrier to equitable educational opportunity and outcomes. It is also antithetical to preparation for citizenship in a multiracial democracy,” SiegelHawley said. “After decades of neglect, policymakers should urgently confront this issue, starting with raising awareness and followed by concrete policy action and accountability. We offer a lengthy list of policy priorities for state and local stakeholders in the report.” The research team behind the report has a wide range of expertise
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ph.D in the areas of race, education, law, civil rights, politics, school board governance, state and federal policy and consultancy around the technical aspects of school rezoning. “We’ve been tracking for a while now the ways that boundaries within and between districts structure segregation,” SiegelHawley said. “We’ve also drawn attention to the fact that those same lines, which are redrawn for a lot of reasons, could be used to further integration. So we wanted to zero in on it, and Virginia was an ideal state because so many differing districts (e.g., city and suburban, of varying sizes) have recently gone through rezoning processes.” The report draws on a variety of data sources, including federal and state school enrollment data, Virginia school board policies and media accounts related to rezoning. The researchers are sharing the data with the Virginia Department of Education and other K-12 stakeholders, and also have been providing updates on their work to Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni. “Moving forward, the team is committed to continuing to work with education leaders on ways to translate the findings into policy and practice,” Siegel-Hawley said.
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Virginia’s contact tracing app could be a vital tool in fighting COVID-19 — if people would use it KATE MASTERS VM - Jess Reingold, a web project manager who lives in Alexandria, has lots of ideas for Virginia’s COVIDWISE app, which was the first software system in the nation to alert users if they’ve had a close contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus. “There isn’t much to see or do in it unless you’ve tested positive,” she wrote in an email last week. Some of her ideas include a statewide heatmap of cases, a search portal for nearby testing sites, and other dashboards to make the app more interactive, like a tab with vaccine development updates and the latest announcements from Gov. Ralph Northam. What Reingold isn’t so sure about is how many other people use the app. Like many of the Virginians who discussed their experiences with COVIDWISE for this story, she’s never gotten an alert warning her of a potential exposure, even though she lives in Northern Virginia and “there are a lot of people around in this area,” she wrote. “While people do appear to have it on their phone, it also doesn’t seem like the vast majority of the Virginia population does,” Reingold added. Sarah Sams, who lives in Mechanicsville, said that at least 90 percent of her friends, family and neighbors said they haven’t downloaded the app. Sometimes, there’s a clear reason, like a few friends who have told Sams they’re worried about potential privacy violations (though COVIDWISE uses anonymized Bluetooth technology to share location data, making it less invasive than most other apps). But among her close friend group, she said it’s more common to hear that people just aren’t interested. “It’s apathy, pretty much,” Sams added. “They’re skeptical that enough people are going to download it to make it work.” That lack of engagement is
Virginia Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver. “We’ve done better than most any other state in the country with the percentage of our population that’s downloaded the app,” he added (Maryland, which launched its own app on Nov. 10, has roughly 1,075,000 subscribers, but its state Department of Health said it’s still too early to provide additional analytics). By VDH calculations, the department has also reached 19 percent of its target population — defined as the roughly 80 percent of Virginians aged 18 to 65 that can be reasonably assumed to have cell phones, according to Stover. But for COVIDWISE to really be effective, downloads aren’t the only metric.
(continued on page Health Commissioner Norman Oliver one of the biggest challenges for Virginia health officials as they struggle to contain a growing swell of COVID-19 cases. While transmission is far more restrained across most of the state than it is in national hotspots such as North Dakota and Minnesota, PUBLIC NOTICE Virginia’s seven-day average of daily new cases topped 2,400 on Nov. 24 — higher than it’s been at any point during the pandemic. Through Truck Traffic Restrictions The state’s percentage of positive Davis Mill Road (Route 608) test results rose from 5 percent to 7.4 percent in a matter of Goochland County weeks, and hospitalizations are approaching previous peak levels Notice is hereby given that the Virginia Department of Transportation is in May, according to data from the accepting written comments through December 16, 2020, regarding the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare restriction of through truck traffic for the following routes: Association. Amid a growing surge of cases, Route 608 (Davis Mill Road) from Route 6 (River Road) to Route COVIDWISE should be one of the 606 (Hadensville-Fife Road).The proposed restriction is most easily accessible ways for approximately 1.11 miles. Virginians to learn if they’ve been exposed to the virus and avoid The proposed alternate route for trucks is via Route 606 (Hadensville-Fife infecting others. But nearly four Road) and Route 6 (River Road). The proposed alternate route is months after the app’s launch, approximately 1.45 miles. participation is still decidedly mixed. As of Thursday, a total of 808,774 people had downloaded Comments can be sent to VDOT Ashland Residency Administrator, 523 N. the app — roughly 10 percent of Washington Highway, Ashland, VA 23005. the state’s population, according to Jeff Stover, the executive advisor to
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COVID-19 vaccines were developed in record time – but these game-changers appear safe DR. WILLIAM PETRI VM - There are now two COVID-19 vaccines that, at least according to preliminary reports, appear to be 94.5 percent and 95 percent effective. Both were developed in a record-breaking 11 months or so. I am an infectious diseases specialist and professor at the University of Virginia. I care for patients with COVID-19 and am conducting the local site for a phase 3 clinical trial of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail as a tool to prevent household transmission of COVID-19. I’m also conducting research on how dysregulation of the immune system during SARSCoV-2 infection causes lung damage. Despite the vaccines’ relatively rapid development, the normal safety testing protocols are still in place. How long does most vaccine development take? Vaccines typically take at least a decade to develop, test and manufacture. Both the chickenpox vaccine and FluMist, which protects against several strains of the influenza virus, took 28 years to develop. It took 15 years to develop a vaccine for human papilloma virus, which can cause six kinds of cancer. It also took 15 years to The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 6 No. 49 Mailing Address P.O. Box 12474 Richmond, VA 23241 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call: 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com
develop a vaccine for rotavirus, which commonly causes severe, watery diarrhea. It took Jonas Salk six years to develop and test the first polio vaccine, starting with the isolation of the virus. The Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccines, by contrast, have been developed in less than a year. That’s a game-changer. How was this vaccine developed so quickly? The mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna are faster to develop as they do not require companies to produce protein or weakened pathogen for the vaccine. The genetic material mRNA is easy to make in a laboratory. Manufacturing an mRNA vaccine rather than a protein vaccine can save months, if not years. Traditional vaccines typically use a weakened version of the pathogen or a protein piece of it, but because these are grown in eggs or cells, developing and manufacturing vaccines takes a long time. By contrast, by using just the genetic material that makes the Spike glycoprotein – the protein on the surface of the coronavirus that is essential for infecting human cells – the design and manufacture of the vaccine is simplified. The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions. Letter writers and columnists opinions are their own and endorsements of their views by The LEGACY should be inferred. The LEGACY assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Annual Subscription Rates Virginia - $50 Other states - $75 Outside U.S.- $100 The Virginia Legacy © 2020
Another factor that accelerated vaccine development was the swift and efficient recruitment of patients for clinical trials. How is safety assured when vaccine development is so fast? Safety is the first and foremost goal for a vaccine. In my opinion, safety is not compromised by the speed of vaccine development and emergency use authorization. The reason that vaccines may be approved so quickly is that the large clinical trials to assess vaccine efficacy and safety are happening at the same time as the large-scale manufacturing preparation, funded by the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed program. Typically, large-scale manufacturing begins only once the vaccine has been tested in clinical trials. In the case of COVID-19, the U.S. government wanted to be ready to begin distributing the vaccine the moment the results of the phase 3 trials were known and the safety data had been analyzed. To this end, the pharmaceutical companies launched at-risk manufacturing — which means that the manufactured vaccine doses would be thrown away if the vaccine was ineffective or unsafe — during the FDA-mandated two-month safety waiting period.
The upside is that if the vaccine is safe and effective, it can be distributed immediately and vaccination can begin. Are these vaccines riskier than others? No mRNA vaccines have been approved before because it is relatively new technology. But these mRNA vaccines appear safe and no riskier than other tried and tested ones, like the childhood measles vaccine. To date, no significant side effects have been reported in the interim phase 3 studies of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. Side effects that have been reported are minor things that one would expect with any vaccine, including soreness at the site of injection and transient fatigue, muscle or joint aches. How will EUA work? EUA stands for emergency use authorization. Under EUA, the FDA is requiring that a COVID-19 vaccine be at least 50 percent effective at preventing symptomatic illness. It is also requiring a median of two months of follow-up after completion of the vaccination for half of the vaccine recipients (for most of the vaccines this is two doses). This twomonth period is to allow detection of an adverse event from the vaccine. Petri is a professor of medicine at UVa.
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(from page 3) users with a six-digit personal Virginians also have to update the app if they’ve received a positive test result — a critical part of the process that allows the software to alert contacts who spent 15 minutes or more within six feet of the infected person over the last 14 days. Submitting a positive test requires some interaction with local case investigators, who provide
identification number once the health department has validated the result (a step that prevents the app from being flooded with false positives). As of Thursday, Stover said 553 people had submitted their PINs and positive results to the app, which has led to a little more than 8,600 likely exposure notifications going out. Not
every notification equates to one Virginians — Stover said the same person can get multiple alerts over a 14-day period. As of Tuesday, Virginia has recorded 223,582 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic — and nearly 100,000 since COVIDWISE launched in early August. In total, though, the department has sent out 874 PINs, which means
there’s more than 300 Virginians who received a number but never uploaded their results to the app. Others have tried, but the result hasn’t always been seamless. Seth Hochman, an Arlington resident, said he tried to submit a positive result but never heard back from his local health department after he got a PCR test at a nearby pharmacy.
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