A VMI grad says that partisanship has put the institute’s future in jeopardy.
Jeff Bennett
Jeff Bennett is a native of Danville. Besides freelance writing, Benett works as a business consultant for transportation and emerging technology companies. Bennett resides in Alexandria and holds an undergraduate degree in English from the Virginia Military Institute.
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Across Virginia, nearly 8,000 Black families were displaced by urban renewal
Of 133 total jurisdictions in Virginia, 76 communities in 38 localities were noted as having Black communities that were displaced.
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It takes a village: How the Black community in Lexington supported VMI and its first wave of Black cadets
VMI accepted its first Black cadets in 1968. Here’s how the Black community in Lexington supported them.
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The Berry Hill megasite was moved to avoid disturbing hundreds of enslaved people’s graves
What is now a promising industrial site in Pittsylvania County was once a plantation where enslaved people labored before the Civil War. Here’s a look back at the history.
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From Dan’s Village to Dan-Vegas
Danville’s evolution to become an economic power of Southside Virginia.