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  Richmond Free Press wins NNPA award
  
  VSU student gets inspiration from Hollywood internship
  
  Lawsuit refiled seeking Agelasto’s immediate removal from City Council
  
  2018: A record year for exonerations by The Innocence Project
  
  Couple trying to save James Weldon Johnson cabin
  
  White supremacist gets life sentence in Charlottesville rally death
  
  Support grows for new hate crime reporting bill
  
  Harry and Meghan have a royal baby
  
  Remove or keep a statue? South Africa also debates painful legacy
  
  Meghan and Harry expecting
  
  President Obama says world should resist cynicism over rise of power politics
Opinion
- Enough is enough from the GOP
  
  Equal pay
  
  A Fourth of July travesty
  
  Independence and freedom
  
  Running for exposure
  
  Disparity continues in homeownership
  
  Citizenship question contrived
  
  'Show me the Tubmans'
  
  ‘We must do better’
  
  Use the right name for newly renamed boulevard
  
  8th District residents matter
  
  Why won't Fairfax’s accusers talk with police?
Faith
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  - Obituaries
  Baby Archie is christened
  
  A.M.E. Church installs Right Rev. Adam J. Richardson as senior bishop
  
  Veterans Administration revises policy on religious displays
  
  Family burial interrupted by lack of death certificate
  
  William F. Brown, co-creator of ‘The Wiz,’ dies at 91
  
  Sandra T. Mitchell, longtime city social worker, dies at 75
  
  Brandon Robertson, artist, dies at 36
  
  Martha Brown Wall, educator with the Va. Dept. of Corrections, dies at 54
Entertainment
- - Personality
  - Happenings
  Personality: Rev. Lacette R. Cross
  
  Personality: Dr. Erma L. Freeman
  
  Personality: George P. Braxton
  
  Personality: David O. Harris Jr.
  
  Black media icons scaling back, possibly closing
  
  Richmond Heritage Federal Credit Union to host Community Day Saturday
  
  Cable network backs Bailey for ‘The Little Mermaid’
  
  Late rapper Nipsey Hussle honored at 2019 BET Awards
Sports
- History of VCU’s Franklin Street Gym still remembered as building closes
  
  Crystal Dunn’s defense helps U.S. team to World Cup victory
  
  Coco’s magic carpet ride ends; Serena playing for title No. 24
  
  VUU Golf Team wins CIAA academic award
  
  Go, Coco!
Black Experience
- Wakanda forever: ‘Black Panther’ poised for Oscar win
  
  Actor Michael B. Jordan in spotlight for athletic role in ‘Creed II’
  
  Idris Elba named sexiest man alive
  
  Poet and playwright Ntozake Shange dies at 70
  
  Baseball great Frank Robinson dies at 83
  
  Weathering addiction
  
  Michelle Obama’s memoir already a best-seller
  
  Thousands pay final respects to Aretha Franklin
  
  Go, Coco!
  
  Lonnie G. Bunch III named to head entire Smithsonian Institution
  
  Head of the class!
  
  Breakdancing an Olympic sport?
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