Community Harvest Festival returns after hiatus
Where can you find a safe place for your children to trick-or-treat on Halloween?
Virginia NAACP opposes governor’s transgender policies
The public comment period for response to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s transgender policies ended Oct. 26. On the same day, at 9 a.m., Virginia’s NAACP President Robert N. Barnette, Jr. made clear the organization’s stance on the issue. “The “NAACP opposes them all,” he said during a news conference.
Reunion planned for RPS’ 1972 high school graduates
Fifty years ago, thousands of Richmond students were daily boarding school buses to carry out a federal court order to integrate the city’s public schools.
High job hopes
Nonprofit offers former convicts free solar training for brighter futures
Criminal convictions can be a real barrier to finding work.
Intervention group secures funding to address gun violence
A new plan to prevent gun violence is underway in Richmond as well as funding to support the initiative.
26th Beautillion to recognize area students
Six young men will be recognized for their educational accomplishments, Nov. 5 during the Professionals Reaching Out to the Community Foundation’s 26th Annual Beautillion.This year’s theme is “Unmasking Greatness.”
Local Series fans may remember Astros’ Dusty Baker and Justin Verlander
If Richmond-area baseball fans are looking for a “hometown hero,” the Houston Astros offer two choices.
CeCe Winans first Black female to win Dove Artist of the Year
CeCe Winans, already a multi-Grammy-winning gospel singer, added a historic win at the 2022 GMA Dove Awards, the contemporary Christian music honors, becoming the first African-American female solo artist to be named Artist of the Year.
Personality: Laura Coleman
Spotlight on board president of the Next Move Program
Laura Coleman knows firsthand the challenges of managing a disability, and the need for a world that fully embraces and empowers those who live with disabilities.
VP Harris celebrates $1B award to schools for electric buses
Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 “clean” school buses under a new federal program.
Police Chief Gerald Smith resigns
20-year-veteran Richard Edwards becomes acting chief
The troubled tenure of Police Chief Gerald M. Smith is over.
Gov. Youngkin blames low NAEP scores on former Va. leaders
The 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, released this week, show that for the first time in 30 years, Virginia’s fourth-grade students have fallen below the national average in reading and are barely above the national average in math.
Student loan forgiveness application website goes live
President Biden on Monday officially kicked off the application process for his student debt cancellation program and announced that 8 million borrowers had already applied for loan relief during the federal government’s soft launch period over the weekend.
John V. Moeser, an advocate of racial equity and justice, dies at 79
Educator and equity advocate John V. Moeser, who spent decades researching and inter- rogating Virginia and the South’s relationship with race, poverty and equality, died Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, following a lengthy illness. He was 79.
When color struck the World Series
The New York Giants caught the 1954 championship with three Black players
Baseball’s World Series began in 1903 but it wasn’t until 1947 that Black athletes became a part of that so-called “World.”
Byron Allen buys $100 million home
Media mogul ByronAllen just became the first African-American to pay $100 million for a home in the United States.
Family celebrates matriarch’s centennial birthday
‘I was so happy to see family members that I had not seen for years.’
Six generations of Rose Ann Perry Parker’s family celebrated her centennial birthday Oct. 15 at A Touch of Class Event Hall in Henrico County.
Jermoine Royster defeats opponent, continues winning streak
Richmond boxing phenom Jermoine Royster boosted his pro boxing record to 3-0 with a third round TKO in his most recent bout.
