Richmond Flying Squirrels start season with strong Latino flavor
American tourists enjoy traveling to Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South American countries for fun in the sun vacations. In contrast, young athletes from those southerly nations come to the United States to make a living playing professional baseball.
Biles makes history in return to competition at U.S. Classic
Time on her hands and a world-class gym at her disposal after the 2020 Olympics were postponed, Simone Biles started experimenting almost as a way to stave off the monotony of training.
Poor People’s Campaign, lawmakers unveil sweeping resolution to tackle poverty
Lawmakers and leaders of the faith-based Poor People’s Campaign unveiled a sweeping new resolution on May 20 designed to eradicate poverty in the United States, with activists touting it as a broad-based legislative framework that hopes to do for poverty what the Green New Deal proposes to do for environmental issues.
Groundbreaking expected this summer to convert former city nursing home to apartments
The city’s long vacant nursing home is on track to become 86 apartments.
Council gives zoning approval for new five-story apartment building in North Side
A new apartment building soon could replace two adjoining commercial spaces in North Side.
VUU receives $1M grant to help renovation of Industrial Hall
Virginia Union University has been awarded a $1 million grant to support its efforts to develop a planned Center for African-American History and Culture in the long vacant Industrial Hall on campus.
City moves to new web address June 1: RVA.gov
RVA.gov will become the new virtual City Hall on Tuesday, June 1.
4 city pools to open May 29
Four city pools will open during the Memorial Day holiday weekend and then will operate each weekend until city pools are fully open beginning Saturday, June 19, according to the Richmond Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities.
GRTC installs new bus shelters in East End
Ten new bus shelters have been installed in the city’s East End, with four more to come.
Former U.S. Sen. John Warner dies at 94
Flags are flying at half-staff over the nation’s capital in honor of former U.S. Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia who died Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at age 94.
Veteran, challenger talk reform in Democratic primary for commonwealth’s attorney
Criminal justice reform is the common theme of the two Democrats competing to be Richmond’s chief prosecutor, or commonwealth’s attorney.
Lawmakers, others hopeful about passage of federal George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
A year after his killing unleashed a national reckoning over racial injustice, George Floyd’s relatives met on Tuesday with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House and with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to urge passage of police reform legislation in their loved one’s name.
VSU recognizes 700 grads in first in-person commencement since 2019
It was a day of celebration last Sunday at Virginia State University, as three classes of graduates marched and were recognized during the first in-person commencement held at the university since 2019 because of the pandemic.
Josiah Harrison’s skills add up to a promising future in baseball
According to baseball math, power plus speed equals Josiah Harrison.
Church members to return to court June 1 in Fourth Baptist conflict
A Richmond judge again is being asked to step into the fight for control of a divided Fourth Baptist Church and stop the pastor and its deacons from trying anew to oust their opponents — six trustees, the chair of the Finance Committee and the church treasurer.
Pioneering comic Paul Mooney dies at 79
Paul Mooney, the boundary-pushing comedian who was Richard Pryor’s longtime writing partner and whose bold, incisive musings on racism and American life made him a revered figure in stand-up, died Wednesday, May 19, 2021, at his home in Oakland, Calif., of a heart attack. He was 79.
Personality: Gregory I. Darrisaw
Spotlight on leader of Hobson Lodge No. 23 Prince Hall Masons at 150th anniversary
Gregory Ian Darrisaw feels surrounded by history as the presiding officer of Hobson Lodge No. 23 F&A Prince Hall Masons, the largest Prince Hall Masonic lodge in the city’s South Side.
Black-owned businesses look back, ahead during pandemic
Michelle R. Mosby rang in the 20th anniversary of her business, International Hair Salon, on April 1 with a small group of employees and supporters in a spirited, but safe celebration at the salon on Forest Hill Avenue in South Side.
