Race and Higher Education

Meet investigative journalists Brandi Kellam and Louis Hansen with the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO. They are the authors of "Erasing the Black Spot: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood". The article centers on the use of eminent domain to destroy a black middle-class neighborhood in Newport News to build a new two-year public college as a branch of the William and Mary college system - today known as Christopher Newport University. But CNU is not alone, other public Virginia colleges such as ODU and UVA used similar practices to uproot Black communities for their expansion purposes. Hear a conversation about race and higher education - it's an Another View History Lesson!