Georgia Rep. John Lewis and the white man who attacked him during a civil rights protest in 1961 have been chosen to receive the Common Ground award.

City Council has apologized for Charlottesville’s role in Virginia’s Massive Resistance to school integration in the 1950s.

The Charlottesville government is considering apologizing for its role in Massive Resistance, the failed attempt to keep Virginia public schools segregated after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

When his daughter was in the eighth grade, Harmon White took her out of an all-black school in Ruthville in 1965 and enrolled her in nearby Charles City County School, which had integrated just the year before. “I didn’t understand why he was moving me. He said, ‘Trust me. It’s a good thing.‘ I didn’t want to go,“ said his daughter, Saundra Quiero of Hampton.

During the civil-rights and Vietnam War era, young Episcopal priest Fred Martin held two firm opinions: that segregation was wrong and that the Vietnam War was unjust. “When he saw something wrong, he spoke out. He fought his battles where he stood,“ said his wife of 48 years, Diane Sadler Martin. Not long after arriving to lead St. John’s Episcopal Church in Halifax, he delivered the baccalaureate sermon of the first integrated graduating class at Halifax County High School.

Police are investigating a suspected anti-gay attack on a University of Virginia student and his friend.

Why is he changing now? For political reasons, versus principle? Or was it political reasons then, principle now? If he had been standing up all along, like 16 members of the 435-seat House, in voting against all bailouts in the past year, maybe his party would have fared better and/or maybe bailout mania would not have become a way of life that appears to be here to stay, regardless of who’s getting rich from it, and whether in actuality the bailouts are doing any good.

At noon yesterday, Carl Winfield stopped for a water break, still about 31 miles from Fredericksburg. Wearing hiking boots, a backpack and a heavy coat, the 60-year-old Petersburg man walked cheerfully—sometimes singing gospel hymns along U.S. 1 near Ashland. Along the way, he said, he stopped to rest and pray at a church, where a passer-by was so excited to hear what he was doing that she brought her two sons to meet him.

“You are driving home, exhausted from work, lugging groceries and carrying your child in the back seat. Lights, police, and roadblocks await you. Your car is stopped, an armed officer comes over, and you must roll down your window. Your child begins crying. You must now prove to the police officer’s satisfaction that you have the right to drive down your own block.“