Richmond, Chesterfield libraries join program to distribute free at-home COVID-19 test kits
Libraries across Virginia have joined the effort to make it easier for residents to test themselves for possible COVID-19 infection.
Public school enrollment down 46,000 statewide since pandemic
Richmond Public Schools has reported that 2,700 fewer students were enrolled Sept. 30 as the new school year began than in 2019 before the start of the pandemic.
Council member threatens to delay design funds for new George Wythe
Will Richmond City Council stand in the way of transferring $7.3 million to Richmond Pub- lic Schools so an architect can design a replacement George Wythe High School?
Hanging around
City still mulling offers for city-owned Confederate statues removed last year from Monument Avenue and other Richmond locations.
Richmond removed in 2020 almost all of the city-owned Confederate statues that marred the landscape with their white supremacist message. But getting rid of the statues is proving to be harder.
Gospel artist Hezekiah Walker to lead VUU master class Dec. 4
Local gospel musicians and music students from across the country will have a chance to virtually meet the best in the business while learning how to break into the industry.
Richmond comes alive with holiday events
Richmond will turn on the holiday lights this week and welcome Santa to Downtown to officially launch the celebration of the season.
VUU to start 2 new schools and 2-year degree program
A new school is being launched a Virginia Union University to train students to be activists.
Trailblazing golfer Lee Elder, the first Black to play in the Masters Tournament, dies at 87
Golfer Lee Elder played through the scourge of racism. He broke down enormous barriers. He carved a path for Tiger Woods and others to follow.
Refunds, rate reduction expected for Dominion customers
Virginia regulators have approved a settlement that will bring to a close a review of the rates of the state’s largest electric utility and result in modest refunds and a rate reduction for Dominion Energy Virginia customers.
Counting blessings, by Ben Jealous
“In everything give thanks.” That Bible verse can be hard to put into practice. Just by being alive, we can be sure of having moments of sadness as well as happiness. When you’re active in politics, you experience both wins and losses. Sometimes it can be hard to feel grateful.
Exoneration in Malcolm X’s death no surprise, by A. Peter Bailey
Serious Malcolmites, including myself, were neither surprised nor shocked by the exonerations last week of Muhammad Abdul Aziz, known in 1965 as Norman 3X Butler, and Khalil Islam, known as Thomas 15X Johnson, as assassins of Brother Malcolm X on Feb. 21, 1965.
No rights without voting rights, by Julianne Malveaux
Black women leaders have been working on the issue of voting rights, calling for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, the Build Back Better Reconciliation Act and D.C. Statehood.
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for record $35M at auction
NEW YORK A Frida Kahlo self-portrait that shows the artist with the face of her husband, Diego Rivera, in the middle of her forehead, sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Nov. 16 for $34.9 million, an auction record for a work by a Latin American artist.
Jason Mott, Tiya Miles win National Book Awards
Jason Mott’s “Hell of a Book,” a surreal meta-narrative about an author’s promotional tour and his haunted past and present, has won the National Book Award for fiction—a plot twist Mr. Mott did not imagine for himself.
How high can they go? NBA salaries skyrocketing
Someone needs to knock a hole in the ceiling. NBA salaries keep going up, up, up.
A bit of turkey with your football on Thanksgiving Day?
Thanksgiving can be a day for excesses. Three plates of goodies and a triple helping of NFL are forecast for homes all over Richmond.
CIAA’s Bowie State advances to second round of NCAA football playoffs
Bowie State University has become a source of pride for CIAA football.
VSU wins and loses in Pickle Classic in N.C.
Francis “BJ” Fitzgerald is lighting up the scoreboard for Virginia State University.
