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Group to meet to preserve city’s first black hospital

A growing group of community members is trying to save the shuttered historic Richmond Community Hospital, Richmond’s first Black hospital.

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VUU’s willingness to destroy historic hospital shows shortsightedness

As an alumna of Virginia Union University and a longtime resident of Richmond, I find it hard to believe, and digest, that my beloved alma mater is so callously dismissing the intrinsic value of this landmark, Richmond Community Hospital, in an historic part of the city, which includes the neighborhood that produced so many of the leaders entrenched in the uplifting of the Black community.