RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) is facing some backlash after vetoing two bills to establish a person’s right to contraception in Virginia. On Friday, Youngkin vetoed Senate Bill 237 and House Bill 609, which would have protected...
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Virginia school board to vote whether to reverse school names originally named after Confederates
WOODSTOCK, Va. — A group of supporters in Warren County is prepared to support their neighbors in Shenandoah County fight against an effort to reverse school names back to their original Confederate names. The Shenandoah County School Board is expected to vote on a...
Democrats deliver right to contraception petition to GOP governor
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — On Thursday, Democrats and lobbyists delivered over 37,000 signatures to Governor Glenn Youngkin's executive mansion, imploring the Republican to sign legislation protecting Virginians' access to contraceptives. "They represent a safeguarding of...
Advocates deliver 37,000+ signatures in support of contraception protections
Penny Blue, storyteller and Virginia Program Director of Red, Wine and Blue, said she grew up in family of 10 children in Franklin County, Va. "My mother loved the family she was able to build," Blue said. "But she cherished the decision making and control her...
Mayor Calls For Youngkin To Sign Contraception Bill
Harrisonburg Mayor Deanna Reed met Virginia Senator Ghazala Hashmi (D–Sen. 15) and members of the Virginia chapter of national women’s advocacy nonprofit Red Wine and Blue to call for Governor Glenn Youngkin to guarantee access to contraception on Friday. Reed and...
University of Lynchburg held its ‘Courageous Conversations’ series
"The keynote speaker was activist Penny Blue, a Rocky Mount native, Hampton University graduate, and author. During her address, Blue said "King did more than dream", she said it's important to teach children where they come from so they know where they're going."...
Library debate combatants take fight to School Board, political organizing
Though the battle over Samuels Public Library is over, skirmishes in the nation’s culture wars continue to erupt in Warren County. Many involved on both sides have signaled their intention to continue fighting, shifting their focus to political organizing and public...
Virginia Moms Launch “Parents, Not Politics” Tour to Push Back Against Extremist Attacks on Public Education
VIRGINIA - Statewide nonprofits Red Wine & Blue and We the People For Education are launching a multi-city tour across Virginia starting Wednesday, October 4. Other partner organizations include Vote Mama, MomsRising, NextGen, and National Women’s Political Caucus...
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Watch This: Learn How to Spot Soft Censorship
A lot of people are talking about freedom of speech right now. As Americans, it's a right that has always defined us and that we all hold dear. That’s why the majority of us oppose book bans and censorship. The rise in book bans over the past few years has been well...
Read This: The Quiet Danger of Soft Censorship
We’ve been fighting the explosion of book bans since Red Wine & Blue started. PEN America reports 16,000 book bans in public schools since 2021 — a level not seen since the 1950s during McCarthyism. This increase has been driven by organized groups with a...
Okay, But Why is Gerrymandering Legal?
Lawmakers in Texas made headlines for leaving their state to protest the unfair re-drawing of district maps, known as gerrymandering. Almost all Americans, regardless of political party, are against gerrymandering. But over the past few decades, it’s gotten worse and worse.
So… what exactly is gerrymandering? Why is it legal? And how do we get back to a fair system where all of our votes matter equally?
Okay, But Why Were The Suburbs Shaped By Racism?
We know that the suburbs have been diversifying over the past few decades, and today “suburban woman” is no longer code for “white woman” – no matter how much the media tries to simplify us. But there’s no denying that the suburbs have excluded families who aren’t white for most of their history, and if we’re not careful, they will again in the future. So why – and how – did the suburbs end up so white for so long? What happened to make them more diverse, and why are some people worried that we’re reversing that progress?
Do This: Start Talking About Racism
Anti-racism is not just a state of mind, it’s an active way of living our day-to-day lives. It’s the intentional practice of taking ongoing steps to confront racism in an effort to end it. Sometimes that might mean calling out overt examples of racism when we see...