Racist covenants still exist on some Virginia land deeds, there are now workshops to get rid of them

MOUNT VERNON, Va. – A workshop was announced Thursday to deal with 30 Northern Virginia neighborhoods that have reported racist and antisemitic language in their property records. Although no longer legal, restrictive real estate covenants that banned Black Americans, Jewish Americans and other ethnic minorities from buying homes in…

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