Brothers Darian Threatts, 7, and Dermon Threatts, 8, volunteer for the “Michael Jones Presents The Giveback: Turkey Giveaway,” providing some 1,000 Richmond families, seniors and organizations with a free turkey in time for Thanksgiving. This year’s event took place Nov. 18 at River City Middle School, 6300 Hull Street Road.

The Charles S. Gilpin Community Garden is a public green space that grew out of the vision of the late Lillie A. Estes, a well-known community strategist and organizer who served on the Mayor’s Anti-Poverty Commission. It is one of four growing sites in the Food Justice Corridor. Community beds are open to anyone that is interested in learning and participating; grow and take what you need.

For the sixth year, the Office of City Councilman Michael J. Jones hosted “Michael Jones Presents The Giveback: Turkey Giveaway,” providing some 1,000 Richmond families, seniors and organizations with a free turkey in time for Thanksgiving. This year’s event took place Nov. 18 at River City Middle School, 6300 Hull Street Road.

Volunteer George Mayor distributes turkeys to Richmond area residents.

Photographer Dawoud Bey discussess his new exhibition on Nov. 12 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). Titled “Dawoud Bey: Elegy,” the artist’s photographs and film installations reimagine Virginia’s slave trail, Louisiana plantations and Ohio’s Underground Railroad, evoking istories that no longer are visible. Along with two earlier series, “Elegy” debuts works created by Mr. Bey in Richmond. “Stony the Road” is a photographic series commissioned by the VMFA of the nearly three-mile-long Richmond Slave Trail, while the artist’s film, “350,000,” reminds viewers of the more than 350,000 men, women and children sold from Richmond’s auction blocks between 1830 and 1860.

The exhibit is organized by the VMFA and curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, right, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibit runs through Feb. 25, 2024.

Color explosion in North Side