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VUU appoints director of global and online learning

Tunesha Witcher has been appointed director of VUU Global and Online Learning in the Division of Academic Affairs.

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Absentee ballots can be requested online through new state portal

Virginians now can go online to apply for an absentee ballot. That’s possible after the Virginia Department of Elections launched its new online “citizens portal” Wednesday, according to a release from Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office.

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SNAP benefits now can be used for online grocery shopping

Food stamps now can be used to buy groceries online in Richmond and across the state.

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Churches continue to alter services in era of COVID-19

‘It gives you a reason to reach out to others’

Like other parts of the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed church services throughout the Greater Richmond Region.

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State vital records now online

Millions of individual records of births, deaths, marriages and divorces in Virginia in the past 100 years are now available online, Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced this week.

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Legislation involving hate speech, misinformation not to be taken lightly

This fall, the United States Senate plans to vote on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. While everyone agrees regulation is needed in regard to the tech industry, we, however, should not downplay some very legitimate concerns about problematic aspects in the Act.

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Selma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus

The first attempt of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965 led to police violence against peaceful African-American demonstrators. The police beatings on what became known as “Bloody Sunday” generated anger across the nation 55 years ago this month and prompted President Lyndon B. Johnson to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress. It was one of the most significant moments in U.S. history but remains almost absent from public schools’ social studies lessons.

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Walmart, Target quit Thanksgiving shopping cold turkey; Black Friday still looms in the air

Forget about rushing out this year on Thanksgiving Day to get a jump on Christmas shopping. Target is joining Walmart in closing its stores Thanksgiving Day, ending a decade-long tradition of jumpstarting Black Friday door buster sales.

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Threat of COVID-19 keeping RPS students at home

Richmond Public Schools students will continue learning online this fall when the 2020-21 academic year starts Sept. 8.

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RPS ramping up online learning

Distance learning via computers soon could become more robust for public school students in Richmond while schools are closed.

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COVID-19 brings adjustments to area colleges

Richmond area colleges and universities plan to step up sanitation measures and reduce campus populations by turning to more online classes in dealing with coronavirus as the fall semester begins.

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Families of homicide victims gather online for 30th annual remembrance ceremony

Members of the Richmond community gathered online last week to remember homicide victims and their survivors at the Richmond Coalition Against Violence’s 30th Annual Holiday Memorial Program.

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Golden Nugget donates $1M to Virginia’s HBCUs

A $1 million donation to the five historically Black universities in Virginia.

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Visit museums, gardens and historical sites in Richmond and the world online

Richmond area museums are offering on- line activities, virtual tours and resources to youngsters and families as schools are out for the rest of the academic year and museums and other public venues have been closed during the coronavirus pandemic.

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More Virginia colleges scrap traditional spring break

A growing number of Virginia colleges are announcing that spring break will be canceled or modified in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

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City Council setting up procedures for public meetings online

The Richmond City Council is moving to set up processes and procedures for holding online public meetings, including ways to gain resident comments on legislation, it was announced Tuesday.

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Chesterfield teen receives $10,000 grant to kick-start home-school academy

Watching her younger brother struggle as he started high school through a home-school program, Nasiyah Isra-Ul went online to try to find resources to help.

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Area colleges make changes in wake of omicron variant

Virginia State University is moving its spring semester courses online for the first two weeks because of the surge in COVID-19 cases.

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27,952 registered in 2 days

Voters flood state online registration system during deadline extension

Tens of thousands of Virginians registered to vote last week after a federal judge ordered the state to reopen the voter rolls for two extra days.

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Black artists alliance to hold benefit online auction for COVID-19 relief

Members of the Black American Artists Alliance of Richmond are holding an online art auction from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 6, to benefit CultureWorks’ COVID-19 Arts & Culture Relief Fund.