Rethink the Fall Line Trail before it’s too late
As a resident of the 3rd District, I strongly object to the currently planned route of the Fall Line Trail through Bryan Park. This section of the trail raises several serious concerns.
Grad you made it
To the high school students who poured hours into study, mastered time management, and stayed dedicated to their goals — congratulations. You worked hard. You persevered and sacrificed in pursuit of excellence. You did it. We’re proud of you, and …
Joe Biden
Recently, we all learned former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones.
George Floyd 5 years later: A moment or a movement?, By Marc H. Morial
“All Americans are entitled to live with the confidence that the law enforcement officers and agencies in their communities will live up to our Nation’s founding ideals and will protect the rights of all persons. Particularly in African-American communities, we …
Trump embraces South Africans — the white ones, by Clarence Page
President Trump’s refugee policy reminds me of what automaker Henry Ford supposedly said about his company’s Model T: “A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black.”
Youngkin’s veto threatens public health progress, by Vivienne Pierce McDaniel
When we discuss health care, we often think of physicians, hospitals and medications. However, my day-to-day work as a nurse and professor of nursing teaching health policy and advocacy to nurse practitioner students makes it clear that our community and …
Denied for dissent?
Several Virginia Commonwealth University students who did everything they needed to do to graduate were denied their degree for sitting on the wrong patch of grass on April 29.
Historic Reservations
Last week, the National Trust for Historic Preservation released its annual list of the most endangered historic places. This year’s list includes the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William County.
Museum defies Trump’s crusade to rewrite history, by Marc H. Morial
“He can try to rewrite history, but we have the receipts. And as the Smithsonian’s exhibits magnificently illustrate, African Americans have survived — and overcome — much worse than the frothings of a puffed-up president who fancies himself a king.” …
Pope Leo XIV seems well loved — but for how long? by Clarence Page
Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the 267th pope, some critically important, locally familiar questions came up:
From Reconstruction to today, equity efforts meet familiar opposition
The United States’ relationship with diversity, equity and inclusion is not anomalous—it is as American as discrimination itself. Since Donald Trump’s first term in office, DEI has become a central political focus of his administration, matching previous efforts in principle …
Library budget cuts hurt all students
The school library is a place where inquiry begins and a love of learning is born. This has been quietly vanishing in schools.
Mother’s Day tribute
This was originally published in the Richmond Free Press on the Editorial Page for the May 10-12, 2007 edition as a special Mother’s Day tribute.
Is America still a ‘shining city’ on a hill? By R.L. Byrd
On the night of Jan. 11, 1989, near the end of a 21-minute farewell address, President Ronald Reagan asked the television audience, “How stands ‘The City’ on this winter night?” The City—a reimagined America based off highly controversial pioneer John …
Will Trump have Chicago to kick around anymore? by Clarence Page
Will Donald Trump have Chicago to kick around anymore? That question, an update of Richard Nixon’s memorable farewell to news reporters as he dropped out of the California governor’s race in 1962, came to mind on the heels of some …
