Clarence ‘Bucky’ McGill honored
Back in 1970, longtime Richmond resident Clarence “Bucky” McGill was among eight Black football players at Syracuse University who boycotted the season to protest the treatment they and other players were receiving.
Richmond Community High School graduate receives national scholarship
Morghan Williams, a Richmond Community High School graduate who is a first-year student at North Carolina A&T, is one of 25 students in the United States to be awarded $10,000 through the Sallie Mae Fund’s Bridging the Dream Scholarships for High School Seniors.
City requests applications for Coliseum-area development
City Hall is taking a fresh step in trying to replace the Richmond Coliseum nearly four years after it was shuttered.
Open enrollment at RPS
Parents and guardians of K-12 Richmond Public Schools students now may enroll in the school system’s lottery process, called Open Enrollment, through Feb. 1, 2023.
Veterans Day in Chesterfield
Chesterfield’s Robious Elementary School students will show appreciation for local veterans Friday, Nov. 11, when fifth-grade classes unveil floats that honor each branch of military service during a student parade.
Veterans Day Closings
In observance of Veterans Day on Friday, Nov. 11, please note the following for the City of Richmond, city of Petersburg, and counties of Henrico, Hanover and Chesterfield:
Report finds profound pandemic impact on Virginia education
Virginia’s teacher workforce is smaller, unhappier and less qualified than before the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia’s nonpartisan legislative watchdog agency stated in a report Monday that urged the state to boost funding to address the issue.
Saint Paul’s Baptist Church hosts veterans’ brunch, Thanksgiving food distribution
The Saint Paul’s Baptist Church Veterans Celebration Brunch and the RVA Community Thanksgiving Food Distribution will occur on the following dates and times:
Entrepreneurs host ‘Wakanda Weekend’ to support ‘Black Panther’ sequel, showcase Black excellence
Marvel Comics fans everywhere fell in love with “Black Panther,” the 2018 superhero film based on the character of the same name.
VUU likely will advance to Super Region 2
Virginia Union University has won nine football games on the field. Now it must play another kind of game – the waiting game.
Personality: John Michael Joyce
Spotlight on president of the Richmond branch of the ToolBank network
For the last four years, John Michael Joyce has been a helping hand for the many community services in Richmond.
Trailblazer
Bettie Elizabeth Boyers Cooper’s actions spurred City’s full school desegregation
Bettie Elizabeth Boyers Cooper, who helped end Richmond and Virginia’s determined efforts in the 1950s to maintain racially segregated public schools, has died.
Voters support abortion rights in several states; legalizing marijuana sees small gains
Voters in three states enshrined the right to an abortion in their constitutions Tuesday night while marijuana legalization won in two more states.
Midterm elections 2022
Democrats defeat ‘red tide’ forecast by Republicans
The battle for Congress remains up in the air, with vote counting still underway in numerous states and a final determination whether Democrats or Republicans secure a majority in one or both houses potentially still weeks away.
‘We can no longer remain silent’
Coalition wants Bon Secours to increase investments in area’s poor communities
Sparked by a New York Times expose, a new coalition hopes to rally the East End community to pressure nonprofit Bon Secours Mercy Health to rebuild critical care services at Richmond Community Hospital and better meet the health needs of low-income communities.
Worries grow about City’s policy for sheltering the homeless
For apparently the first time in a decade, City Hall did not open a temporary shelter for the homeless when the temperature, including the wind chill, recently fell below 40 degrees.
Migos rapper Takeoff dead after Houston shooting, rep says
The rapper Takeoff, best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated trio Migos, is dead after a shooting early Tuesday outside a bowling al- ley in Houston, a representative confirmed. He was 28. Kirsnick Khari Ball, known as Takeoff, was part of Migos along with Quavo and Offset. A representative for members of Migos who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed the death to The Associated Press. Police responded shortly after 2:30 a.m. to reports of a shoot- ing at 810 Billiards & Bowling, where dozens of people had gathered on a balcony outside of the third-floor bowling alley, police said. Officers discovered one man dead when they arrived. An AP reporter at the scene observed a body loaded into a medical examiner’s van around 10 a.m., more than seven hours after the shooting. Security guards who were in the area heard the shooting but did not see who did it, a police spokesperson said. Two other people were injured and taken to hospitals in private vehicles. No arrests have been an- nounced and few details were released about what led up to the shooting, but Houston po- lice planned a news conference
Players of color plentiful in World Series despite lack of Black players
For the first time since 1950, there are zero African-American players on either World Series 26-man opening roster.
Top Heisman prospect has Virginia ties
Hendon Hooker was at Virginia Tech before 2021 transfer to Tennessee
It’s becoming routine. Since 2006, Black quarterbacks have won the Heisman Trophy seven times and have been close to winning on many other occasions. The trend is likely to continue this season with one of the top-tier candidates having Virginia connections.
