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Slow down in highway work zones

April 11-15 is National Work Zone Awareness Week.

America and her own oligarchs

Who are America’s oligarchs?

Remembering Dr. King

We pause this week to reflect on the light and lessons shared with this country and the world by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Fighting the corruption of power, by Ben Jealous

We keep learning more about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. And we keep learning more about the many schemes former President Trump and his team tried to use to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Really honoring Black women by Dr. E. Faye Williams

There are right ways and wrong ways to accomplish most things. A few days ago, the world witnessed the wrong way to defend and honor women, if that is what Will Smith thought he was doing.

June 18: Non-spending day

Could you as an African/Black American refrain from spending money for one day?

Break the impasse

We call on members of the Richmond School Board and Richmond City Council to end this ridiculous impasse that threatens to tank the sorely needed replacement of the dilapidated George Wythe High School in South Side.

Kudos

We send hearty congratulations to new University of Richmond President Kevin F. Hallock for the bold actions taken last week by the university’s Board of Trustees to remove the names of slaveholders and segregationists from six campus buildings.

Not letting anyone steal our joy, by Ben Jealous

A congressional meeting room might be the last place people would expect to find joy.

Ukraine invasion, Tulsa Massacre from same playbook, by David W. Marshall

Looking at the events unfolding in Ukraine, it is not hard to compare them to what occurred during Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, especially when you see how two dictators — Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin—followed the same …

Richmond, not Petersburg, should have new ONE Casino + Resort

My family has built a successful multimillion-dollar business empire over 70 years, starting in 1963 with Jet Bargain Stores (six locations), Hawk’s BBQ & Seafood (five locations), Indian Head Hair Grease 1965, Mascot Gas & Oil (six locations) and Crawley’s …

Russia, China alliance over Ukraine spells danger

In numerous recent published reports, the public seemed pretty courageous when debating what sanctions should be taken against Russia’s genocide in Ukraine.

A lesson in class

In case you missed them, the televised confirmation hearings for nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court are a study of extraordinary class in the face of arrogance, sexism, white privilege, homophobia and, yes, racism — everything …

Black Americans and principles of democracy, by Ben Jealous

Anti-democratic authoritarianism is on the rise both around the world and here at home. Sometimes it is easier to recognize overseas.

Pay inequity: Past is prologue, by Julianne Malveaux

March 15 was National Pay Equity Day. It’s the day when women have to work into a new year to earn the same amount that men earned in the previous year.