“I had a good time tonight,” Bobby Brown said to his family as they left The Diamond after attending a recent Richmond Flying Squirrels baseball game.

Richmond School Board member Shonda Harris-Muhammed, 6th District, is organizing the 4th Annual Teacher Appreciation Dance from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Hilton Richmond Downtown, 501 E. Broad St.

Binford Middle School is marking its 100th anniversary at the Binford Centennial Celebration, featuring entertainment, dance performances, student art exhibits and activities 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the school, 1701 Floyd Ave., in The Fan.

With hammers, paintbrushes and screwdrivers, hundreds of Richmond volunteers will spend Saturday, April 30, fixing up 39 homes in the Ruffin Road area of South Side.

Music lovers in Central Virginia can listen to their favorite song on the radio and help send a child to summer camp in the process.

There’s just one international Earth Day, but Richmond area residents will have the opportunity this weekend to attend festivals on both sides of the James River. Both events are scheduled to take place Saturday, April 23.

The case became a national sensation — an angry white man shooting into a car with four unarmed black teenagers for playing their music too loud. One teen was killed.

Five-time cancer survivor and Richmond resident Steven Wentworth is bringing the Greater Richmond Holistic Expo to the Richmond Raceway Complex in Henrico County.

The Richmond Association of Black Social Workers will present its spring 2016 education symposium, “I Am My People’s Keeper: Progressive Strategies in Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline,” from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 22, at Sixth Baptist …

Jobs, criminal justice reform, a living wage, LGBT rights and other issues will be the focus of the 8th Annual Virginia People’s Assembly that will convene this weekend at a Richmond church, it has been announced.

New York Times bestselling author and poet Nikki Grimes will speak 6 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Richmond Public Library’s Main Branch, 101 E. Franklin St. in Downtown.

Richmond soul and jazz singer and songwriter Kia Bennett will make her hometown debut in a 7 p.m. concert Tuesday, May 10, at Capital Ale House Downtown, 623 E. Main St.

Disney’s “The Lion King” roars back into Richmond next week, with all the enjoyable and familiar characters, costumes and songs.

A university president with a comedic touch. A burlesque performer on a mission to continue the revival of her craft.

R&B singer Will Downing will be a special guest at the 4th Annual Virginia Union University Scholarship Gala & Masquerade Ball this Friday, April 15, at The Richmond Marriott Hotel, 500 E. Broad St. in Downtown.