Lena Henderson, president of the alumni association, attended John J. Wright in the 1970s, when it was the county’s only intermediate school. “You got to meet everyone else from the other end ...

John Charles Thomas, who became the first Black justice of the Virginia Supreme Court 40 years ago, serving from 1983 until 1989, is not one to hold back. In the mid-1970s, as a young lawyer at ...