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Michael Vick: Players are Heading to Norfolk State University
After the Dec. 23 announcement that NFL superstar Michael Vick would be coaching at Norfolk State University, players are beginning to head to NSU. Vick scored his first commitment from defensive tackle Nick Booker-Brown. Then the news of another transfer, defensive tackle Delonta Butler followed.
More on Trump and TikTok
“Interesting turn of events: Trump called TikTok a national security risk, but now he’s asking for a stay on a congressionally-passed ban,” wrote Sen. Mark Warner last night after news that President Elect-Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay a pending decision that would possibly ban TikTok in the U.S.
“President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government — concerns which President Trump himself has acknowledged,” the brief in part stated.
Del. Josh Cole and District 66 Candidate Nicole Cole: Speaker Scott, Senator Foy and Delegate Cole to Kick Off
Speaker Don Scott and State Senator Jennifer Carroll Ford will speak at a campaign kickoff even on Jan. 3, 2025 for Delegate Josh Cole and Spotsylvania School Board member Nicole Cole. Nicole Cole is running in House District 66.
Reading List
1- Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America Hardcover (1999)
2- Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Paperback (2009)
3- Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Oct. 2024)
4- Positive, Successful, Stylish Black People Coloring Book (2024)
5- When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia's Capital City by Linwoood Norman (Aug. 2024)
6- Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America) by George Derek Musgrove
7- Son of Virginia, A Life in America's Political Arena (2015) by L. Douglas Wilder
8- The New Jim Crow (2010) by Michelle Alexander
9- Remaking Virginia Politics by Paul Goldman (Jan. 2022)
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