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Va. PrideFest set for Saturday on Brown’s Island

Richmond native and American Idol finalist Rayvon Owen will headline the entertainment at Virginia PrideFest.

Free yearlong pass to national parks

Fourth-graders and their families can visit the national parks and federal recreation areas of their choice across the country for free for an entire year.

Arbor Day Foundation offering trees

Get 10 free white flowering dogwood trees when you join the Arbor Day Foundation. The price to join: $10.

Chesterfield NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet on Saturday

The Chesterfield County Branch NAACP is holding its 2015 Freedom Fund Banquet from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Richmond Marriott in Downtown.

Art festival to benefit CARITAS

The 24th Annual 43rd Street Festival of the Arts will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, at Forest Hill Avenue and 43rd Street on South Side.

Social justice conference at Hampton U. on Sept.1

The Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for African Diaspora Studies at Norfolk State University, in partnership with the Civil Rights Institute at Hampton University, is hosting a daylong conference called “1619: Making of America.”

Rep. Scott hosts Labor Day picnic

Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott will be dishing out politics and lots of grilled hamburgers and hot dogs again on Labor Day.

Kanye, Swift replay encounter at MTV Video Music Awards

Taylor Swift may have won the most Moonmans on Sunday, but it was her reunion with rapper Kanye West on the MTV Video Music Awards stage that stole the show, as Kanye declared he will run for the U.S. presidency …

Juvenile justice system focus of Art 180 exhibit for First Friday

Youths from the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center are using artistic expression to voice their perspectives on the juvenile justice system and suggest ways to reform it.

‘Straight’ No.1 for second week

“Straight Outta Compton” continues to connect with movie audiences. It is the No. 1 movie in North America for the second week.

WE CARE Festival

Above, cousins Ahkira Haskins, 5, and Ja’niyah Buckner, 6, pick up book bags filled with school supplies at the 9th Annual WE CARE Festival on North Side. Right, Santia Nance of RVA HoOp LOvers shows off her hula hoop skills …

3-day music festival this weekend in Virginia Beach

The sounds of jazz and funk will fill the air to the backdrop of waves crashing onto the Virginia Beach shore at the third annual Virginia Beach Africana 2015. The fun-filled festival begins Friday, Aug. 28, and continues through Sunday, …

REVIEW: Straight Outta Vulgarity, Misogyny

If hearing profane language spoken every other word and seeing young bare-chested women being used as groupie sex kittens is what you want in a movie, then “Straight Outta Compton” is your kind of movie.

Fan Appreciation Day attracts 7,130 people

The Washington professional football team’s training camp in Richmond appears to be losing public interest as fast as a slow-footed quarterback loses ground behind a porous offensive line. The camp averaged about 5,800 fans each day, compared to more than …

Armstrong Class of 1965 celebrates 50th reunion

Armstrong Class of 1965 celebrates 50th reunion