VA HJR87

Designates April 13 as an annual Day of Remembrance for Victims of Lynching in Virginia, beginning in 2026 and continuing each succeeding year

Acknowledges that over 80 lynchings occurred in Virginia between 1877 and 1950 according to the Equal Justice Initiative, with other scholarship documenting more than 100 lynchings in the state

References Virginia's 1928 anti-lynching law, which made lynching a state crime, and the 2019 General Assembly resolutions that made Virginia the first state to formally acknowledge this history

Directs the Clerk of the House of Delegates to transmit the resolution to the Virginia Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission for dissemination and to post the designation on the General Assembly's website