Arthur Ashe was the first African-American to compete at the highest level of professional tennis. After an early retirement due to heart surgery, Ashe used his sports profile and legendary poise to promote human rights, education, and public health. He was born in… Read More ›
Editors’ Note: Reprinted from The New York Times, December 18, 2018 by Sarah Anderson My grandfather was part of a long tradition of postal workers who sacrificed Christmas Eve with their families to deliver holiday packages. VoxFairfax has previously commented upon… Read More ›
Editors’ Note: Reprinted from an editorial in The Roanoke Times, December 15, 2018. In 1965, Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell got 1.2% of the vote–5,730 votes (including 346 in Fairfax County, the highest total in the Commonwealth) for Governor of Virginia Nazis… Read More ›
Our December 9 posting on the fluke crudo contretemps was a tentative foray into commentary that diverged from our usual coverage. Clearly we were not prepared to engage our audience in a consistent stream of concern about culinary crises but,… Read More ›
By Del. Jennifer Carroll-Foy Reposted from the December 14, 2018, issue of Blue Virginia. By the end of the 2018 Virginia General Assembly legislative session, a budget was passed to fully fund every unfilled judicial seat in the state of… Read More ›
Those of us who for one reason or another move from a more sophisticated—generally urban—location to one more rural or suburban may be left with longings for specific culinary tastes developed there. At the same time, there may occur rear-mirror… Read More ›
Ernest Jennings Ford, better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, died of liver failure in a Reston hospital on October 17, 1991, after attending a White House dinner hosted by George H.W. Bush. Ironically, on October 17, 1955, Sixteen Tons, the… Read More ›
Once upon a time, among folks of a certain age, having a nickname or street name was mostly a badge of honor, emblematic of status in the community. However, in contemporary political parlance, such appellations have morphed into taunts or… Read More ›
For the most part, our major political parties define themselves by way of issues but their most concrete representation and identity occurs in the person of their candidates. Each of the major political parties brags to the voter about the… Read More ›
West Point First Captain one of Top 10 College Women of the Year Success and achievement are nothing new for Fairfax native Simone Askew. In August 2017 the then-20-year-old became the first African-American woman named to the position of First Captain… Read More ›