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Hall of Fame basketball player Alonzo Mourning Jr. is a champion of charitable causes and persevered against kidney disease.

Chesapeake

Throughout his career as a Baptist minister, Reverend Andrew J. White Sr. has championed education, health care, and community service.

Petersburg

As a judge in Richmond’s Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Angela Edwards Roberts has been a forceful advocate for vulnerable youth and families within the criminal justice system.

Richmond

Harlem Renaissance poet Anne B. Spencer was also an advocate for the civil rights of African Americans.

Lynchburg

As a longtime community leader in Richmond, Benjamin Lambert practiced optometry in Jackson Ward and served in the Virginia General Assembly.

Richmond