Every January, around this time, we hear the same things about Martin Luther King Jr from the same people. They attempt to reduce the sweeping legacy of one of the world’s greatest orators and civil rights leaders into a digestible …

Today, The Richmond Free Press is 33 years old.

I sit here and wonder, How in the world this could be, my-oh-my I never thought, oh, I never thought you’d ever leave me But now that you left me Good Lord, good Lord, how I cried out You don’t …

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Second acts are hard to come by for African Americans. While it seems some white people are allowed to fail and fall repeatedly before securing a shot at redemption, it doesn’t work that way for everyone. Virginia native and former …

Once in a while, there comes a crisis or current event that lets us know how many Americans feel about a particular issue.

When it was announced on Sunday that, despite his promises not to, Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, there was some outrage from the right.

Recently, Chesterfield County officials witnessed the swearing in of the county’s first African American police chief, Lt. Colonel Frank Carpenter. For longtime observers of the county’s politics, this news would’ve seemed like science fiction a few decades ago. But here …

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After a month of promotion, a rescheduling and a lot of hype, former boxing great Mike Tyson finally stepped into the squared circle to face social media influencer Jake Paul last week. Those hoping for a comeuppance for the loudmouth …

If there’s any good to come out of this election, it’s that it’s finally over. After months of emails, phone calls and postcards from so-and-so who is running for this-or-that office, those intrusive communications have finally ceased.

Things have gotten choppy for the popular “Something in the Water” concert series. After recently canceling this year’s event, which was set for mid-October in Virginia Beach, now it looks like plans for next year are in jeopardy.

The presidential election results left many of us shell-shocked. The polling didn’t predict this. Most of the pundits didn’t see it coming either. But here we are. Instead of building on the achievements and success of the Biden administration, we …

We’ve entered the part of the election cycle where new information about candidates leaks into newscasts and newspaper articles. In the political world, such revelations, which are seldom helpful to the candidates they’re about, are called “October surprises.” We’ve had …