Wallace Dooley Jr., who served as sports information director at Virginia State University and a number of historically black colleges, died Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at a hospice in Nashville, Tenn.

Dr. George Cooper, who served as the 10th president of South Carolina State University from 2008 to 2012, died Sunday, July 19, 2015.

Women United for Christ Ministry is sponsoring a women’s empowerment workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at Fifth Baptist Church, 1415 W. Cary St.

St. Elizabeth Catholic Church is holding its 7th Annual Jazz & Food Festival from noon to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, on the grounds of the church at 2nd Avenue and Victor Street in Highland Park.

The 300-member Richmond Christian Center is poised to leave bankruptcy after nearly two years, with the finances of the South Side church restored.

An initial autopsy on Bobbi Kristina Brown on Monday found no significant injuries and no obvious underlying cause of death for the daughter of the late entertainer Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown.

A new church has opened at the former site of a popular 12-step meeting place for recovering alcoholics and addicts on South Side.

Can prisons ban inmates from drinking communion wine at religious services behind bars? The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says no.

At age 80, gospel music icon Dorothy Norwood still can spiritually move an audience. Known as “Gospel’s greatest storyteller,” she demonstrated her star power again Sunday evening as the headliner before an overflow audience at Dogwood Dell at the 6th …

Richmond native Mildred Elizabeth Fountain Weekes was a renaissance woman.

New Life Deliverance Tabernacle on South Side is holding its Vacation Bible School from Tuesday, July 21, through Friday, July 24, the church has announced.

The Rev. Luther Barnes is headlining the “Gospel Explosion” concert at Second Baptist Church on South Side at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, the church has announced.

This mural of Jesus on the side of the former Richmond Outreach Center at 6255 Old Warwick Road was photographed in 2005. Today, the building has been whitewashed, awaiting a new mural as workers transform the former South Side church …

“Don’t Go to Church, Be the Church.” That was the theme of a day of community service by members at Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Jackson Ward on July 5.

Pastor Michael D. McClary has spent nearly 30 years helping alcoholics and drug users in Richmond follow the Christian road to recovery that transformed him from an addict to a minister. The 65-year-old minister has undertaken the effort as the …