Judge rules Virginia school board discriminated against Black students by restoring Confederate names

A federal judge has ordered a Virginia school board to replace two Confederate school names it restored in 2024, ruling that the decision discriminated against Black students. The ruling is the latest turn in a fight that began when the Virginia NAACP filed a lawsuit after the school board’s 2024 vote reversed changes made during the 2020 racial justice protests. The Confederate school names must now be changed again.
In an opinion filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Virginia, Judge M