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  City Council to hear new Confederate statue resolution
  
  VCU master plan highlights major new projects for cityscape
  
  RPS seeks public response to new school designs..
  
  Birmingham memorial service remembers 4 little girls
  
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  Work to resume on Atlantic Coast Pipeline
  
  Conflicting accounts emerge in bizarre case of cop killing man in his own ...
  
  President Obama says world should resist cynicism over rise of power politics
  
  Wedding bells for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
  
  Faith leaders, politicians: New immigration order still anti-Muslim
  
  Serena, 35, wins title 23, pursuing 24
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- Getting ready for Nov. 6
  
  Marcus-David Peters
  
  Disasters happen; preparation is key
  
  An exceptional opportunity
  
  Russian hackers targeted black community
  
  The right to vote is a precious thing. More than simply permission to ...
  
  ‘Why is he there?’
  
  Prostate cancer: To screen or not
  
  City committed to ‘open and fair competition’
  
  Explanation, please
  
  Should Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School building be renovated?
  
  Memories of the ‘Queen of Soul’
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  Hurricane relief efforts started by SCLC and others
  
  Centenary United Methodist Church celebrates 9 years as Reconciling Congregation
  
  Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy to host annual awards ceremony Sept. 26
  
  At Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, business leaders reflect on ethics
  
  Richmond lawyer Jacqueline G. ‘Jackie’ Epps, former chair of the Virginia Retirement System, ...
  
  M.A. Motley, longtime business and civic leader, dies at 96
  
  James ‘Jimmy Lee’ Bracey Jr., founder of West End Richmond Striders track club, ...
  
  Friends, family say goodbye to Aretha Franklin in marathon funeral
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  Emmy Awards still not winning at diversity
  
  Martha High, backup singer for James Brown, to speak Sept. 22 at Black ...
  
  Rally to observe International Day of Peace this Friday
  
  Festival celebrating RPS slated Saturday
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- NFL black power: NFL starts season with 7 African-American coaches
  
  NFL black power: Mahomes among 6 African-American quarterbacks
  
  VUU, VSU games back on schedule this Saturday
  
  Mookie Betts, Lorenzo Cain leading candidates for MLB MVPs
  
  Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge breaks world marathon record
Black Experience
- ‘Black Panther’ continues to smash box office records
  
  Serena’s pregnant!
  
  Icon Angela Y. Davis unleashes her thoughts on Trump, Clinton and future
  
  Former NASA ‘hidden figure’ advises students to chart own course
  
  Thousands pay final respects to Aretha Franklin
  
  Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, civil rights icon, chief of staff to Dr. King, ...
  
  Serena ties the knot!
  
  Rev. Jesse Jackson diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
  
  Miss America wins minus swimsuit competition
  
  Lena Horne honored on U.S. Postal Service stamp
  
  Wedding bells for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
  
  Petersburg’s Frank Mason III rakes in the honors
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Recovering: Relief efforts begin to help thousands affected by Hurricane Florence; officials report 37 storm-related deaths, including 2 in Virginia

Earnest Claxton of Richmond surveys the damage in his former Chesterfield County neighborhood on Tuesday after learning about the destruction in the area caused Monday by tornadoes spawned by remnants of Hurricane Florence.

Remnants of Hurricane Florence swept Richmond into the national spotlight Monday when the storm’s wide-reaching bands of high winds and ...

Hurricane relief efforts started by SCLC and others

Black Baptist churches and a civil rights organization in the Newport News area are gearing up to send aid to ...

City Council to hear new Confederate statue resolution

The battle over Richmond’s Confederate statues on Monument Avenue is headed back to City Council. The three-member Land Use, Housing ...

VCU master plan highlights major new projects for cityscape

This is the future look of the adult outpatient center now under construction at 10th and Leigh streets on the medical campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Work began in June creating the $349.2 million center, the most expensive single building project in city history. The building is going up on the site of the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, which previously moved to new quarters on Sherwood Avenue in North Side, just north of the Children’s Hospital of Richmond campus.

The construction spigot at Virginia Commonwealth University will be flowing for years to come.

RPS seeks public response to new school designs..

This is one of three proposed designs for E.S.H. Greene Elementary School adopted from the expansion at Beulah Elementary School in Chesterfield. Prototype designs for Greene and George Mason Elementary schools and Elkhardt-Thompson Middle School can be found at www.rvaschools.net.

Richmond Public Schools wants community feedback on proposed designs for two new elementary schools and a new middle school that ...

City picking up storm debris through Oct.2

City Hall is pitching in to help residents clear away downed trees and other debris left Monday as the remains ...

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