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‘Quiet quitting’ is not just for ‘silly season’, by Clarence Page
Just as I was wondering whether various crises were coming too fast to allow our usual “silly season” of oddball late summer news, an appropriately weird-sounding social trend popped up on social networks and intriguingly struck a nerve. It’s called “quiet quitting.”
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Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty is LVA’s literary awards speaker
James Beard award-winning author and cu- linary historian Michael W. Twitty will be the featured speaker during the Library of Virginia’s 25th Annual Literary Awards Celebration on Oct. 15.
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Students return to campus amid water crisis in Mississippi
While its water crisis continued, students in Mississippi’s capital returned to class for the first time in a week Tuesday with assurances that the toilets and sinks in their buildings would finally work.
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Afrikana Film Festival includes live performances, panels, workshops
“The Birth of a Planet,” a 30-minute documentary film about post-Civil War era “Richmond Planet” newspaper editor John Mitchell, will launch the three-day, 7th An- nual Afrikana Independent Film Festival at 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. The event is free and open to the public.
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VSU eyes comeback after Lenoir-Rhyne defeat
Jabari Blake is a proven winner. Now he hopes to elevate his high school success to the college level.
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A rising VSU senior and computer engineering major, Jeremey Johnson was noticed by multiple Fortune 500 companies that were seeking summer interns, including Honda North …
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Armstrong High School graduates Dr. Loretta H. Dennis: ’75, Pamela Johnson: ’77, Shelia Anderson: ’74, and Karen Milon: ’76 (left to right) recall old times.
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Salamander founder and CEO Sheila C. Johnson, center, enjoys after-lunch conversation with Alexander Bernard Smalls, the James Beard award-winning chef, restaurateur and author, and with …
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Housing units’ new CEO
Steven Bernard Nesmith, former HUD official, has known poverty and prosperity, but considers RRHA role his dream job
Steven Bernard Nesmith is returning to public housing more than 40 years after leaving the Philadelphia projects where he grew up.
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Summer internships key to jump-starting careers
Internships for college students can be pivotal in steering and developing a young person’s career.
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VSU opens season with new coach
Virginia State University got off on the wrong foot in 2021 and never fully found its stride. Under new Coach Henry Frazier III, the Trojans are hopeful of a more uplifting start this season — but it won’t come easy.
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Richmond Community High School grad’s vegan cooking satisfies hungry New Yorkers
Middleburg Chef Shenarri Freeman started cooking 10 years ago at the 9:30 Club, a concert hall in Washington, D.C. Then a pre-physical therapy student at Howard university, she took the gig to get free concert tickets.
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VSU hopes for a winning season
With football practices in full swing, Virginia State University is hopeful some of that Bowie State Bulldogs magic rubs off on the Trojans.
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Rita Dove is among Library of Virginia finalists for the 25th Annual Literary Awards
Nine finalists have been selected for the 25th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards, the Commonwealth’s premier celebration honoring Virginia writers and their contributions to literature. Acclaimed poet and former U.S. poet laureate Rita
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Panthers eye contenders for quarterback vacancy
Auditions are underway at Virginia Union University.
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Ebony and Jet archives transferred to Smithsonian and Getty Research Institute
More than 4 million photos from Ebony and Jet magazine that captured African-American life, history and culture in the 20th century are now the property of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Personality: Vanessa Evans
Spotlight on president of the Richmond Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Sorority life is a point of pride for Vanessa Evans.
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Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 89
Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89.
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Virginians Mine Oregon Gold
Grant Holloway and Noah Lyles, right, have made the seismic leap from the Virginia High School League to the tip top of the track and field world.
