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Save Adult Alternative Program to help former convicts
Re “Re-entry training program locked out of former school building,” Free Press April 7-9 edition:
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President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris applaud Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as she speaks during a ceremony April 8 on the South Lawn of …
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Incoming U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson celebrated at White House ceremony
“In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.” With those words, incoming Justice Ketanji Brown Jack- son acknowledged both the struggles and progress of Black Americans in her lifetime.
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University of Kansas players leap for joy Monday night after the final buzzer sounded and they clinched the NCAA Tournament title with a 72-69 win …
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The University of South Carolina women’s team celebrates on the court after winning the NCAA title Sunday in a 64-49 victory over the University of …
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Richmond’s oldest fire station has a date with a wrecking ball after 114 years. This is Fire Station No. 12, which opened at 2223 W. …
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Finding the silver lining
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to people and businesses during the last two years. But some Richmond area residents have been able to find a silver lining during the crisis.
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Re-entry training program locked out of former school building
The shutdown has come for a Richmond-based program that linked people released from jails and prisons to training for construction jobs.
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RISC gets affordable housing commitments from some City Council members
A coalition of religious and community groups have received new commitments from City Council members to address affordable housing, including the state of mobile homes, in the city.
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City sluggish in distributing health grant, establishing emergency fund
The City of Richmond last year was awarded a $4 million federal grant to improve health literacy in Black and Latinx sections of the city.
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Transit union calls for assaulted GRTC driver to be reinstated
GRTC is facing pushback for firing a driver who subdued a passenger after he refused to don a mandatory mask and hit the driver on the arm when he called for assistance.
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Former Monroe Park Conservancy head acquitted in assault
Alice M. Massie, the former president of the Monroe Park Conservancy, has been acquitted of assaulting a Virginia Commonwealth University student.
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Cityscape: Richmond's oldest fire station
Slices of life and scenes in Richmond
Richmond’s oldest fire station has a date with a wrecking ball after 114 years. This is Fire Station No. 12, which opened at 2223 W. Cary St. in 1908 when horses pulled the equipment to fires.
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Personality: Ellery D. Lundy
Spotlight on founder and president of Broken Men Foundation and Youth Academy
For the last seven years, Ellery Dean Lundy has strived, in his own words, “to make broken youth better men.”
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Cary C. Mitchell, clothing designer to athletes and a Richmond legacy sports backer, dies at 62
Top Black athletes found their way to Richmond native Cary C. Mitchell when they wanted to look their best.
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Evelyn H. Price, retired teacher and church leader, dies at 85
Evelyn Louise Harris Price, a retired Richmond educator and active churchwoman, has died.
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Zambian mission trip spurs desire to forge greater ties for Dr. Michael Jones
It is not unusual for church members to go on mission trips to provide help and support to those in need in other countries. However, Dr. Michael J. Jones said he and a small delegation from the Village of Faith Ministries that he led to rural Chibombo, Zambia, may have received as much as they gave.
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Afghan evacuees mark first U.S. Ramadan with gratitude, agony
Sitting cross-legged on the floor as his wife and six children laid plates of fruit on a red cloth in front of him, Wolayat Khan Samadzoi watched through the open balcony door for the sliver of the new moon to appear in the cloudless New Mexico sky, where the sun had set beyond a desert mountain.
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Booker T. Washington National Monument seeking public’s help to unravel mystery
Officials at the Booker T. Washington National Monument outside Roanoke are asking the public for help in unraveling one of its biggest mysteries.
