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State probe into Black communities’ displacement surges forward with infusion of funds

Meanwhile in Newport News, a separate task force is working to address the displacement of a once-thriving Black neighborhood that was usurped to make way for Christopher Newport University

Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Richmond speaks during a meeting of the Commission to Study the History of the Uprooting of Black Communities by Public Institutions of Higher Education in the Commonwealth on May 20, 2025. (Photo by Charlotte Rene Woods / Virginia Mercury)

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