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City Council sets fines for driving while talking, texting or holding cell phone
Just holding a cell phone in your hand while driving could soon cost you $125 in the city of Richmond.
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Concerns raised over NAACP official's close ties to state political party
Has the Virginia State Conference NAACP crossed into partisan territory by naming the No. 2 officer of the state Democratic Party as its chief lobbyist?
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Personality: Robin Ann Brewster
Spotlight on Leadership Metro Richmond’s board chairwoman
A key factor in good leadership is being “a servant leader first and a good listener who seeks to learn and understand and whose actions demonstrate integrity, empathy and inclusion.” That’s the perspective and leading principle of Robin Ann Brewster, board chairwoman of Leadership Metro Richmond.
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Va. inmate wins religious freedom lawsuit
For more than three years, Alfonza H. Greenhill has persisted in battling Virginia prison policies that blocked him from practicing the strict Sufi branch of Islam.
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Okoye rebounding this season to help Lady Panthers with big wins
Ifunanya Okoye represents both the near and far on the Virginia Union University women’s basketball roster.
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Chesterfield's Charles Williams racking up the points at Howard
Charles Williams is already the top scorer in Howard University hoops history.
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Thomas Jefferson loses in state semifinal
Thomas Jefferson High School’s finest football season in decades came up short of a state championship.
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Photographing history: Richmond native Lawrence Jackson returns home with book about his years as President Obama's official White House photographer
Photojournalist Lawrence Jackson had covered national and international news events for the Associated Press for eight years. But he could feel that something was different when he rushed to Washington’s Lafayette Park on Election Night 2008. A spontaneous celebration of hundreds of people had erupted at the park across from the White House when Barack Obama was proclaimed the winner of the presidential election.
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Newest Soulidifly film, 'Hell on the Border,' to open Friday
Born enslaved, Bass Reeves rose to become a legendary U.S. deputy marshal who helped tame the Wild West, giving rise to speculation that he served as the model for the fictional white Lone Ranger.
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Sen. Kamala Harris 'still a winner' by Julianne Malveaux
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U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California threw her hat in the ring early this year for the Democratic nomination for president before a crowd of more than 20,000 people in Oakland, Calif. She made the announcement on Jan. 21, the official Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. She jumped into the race with enthusiasm, and many people had high hopes for her.
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Proposed Navy Hill project will dilute black voting strength
Letter to the Editor
The 2,500 residential units called for in the Navy Hill District Corp. Downtown re- development project will result in Jackson Ward as we know it disappearing. This is because Jackson Ward will no longer be a predominately black community as it has historically been.
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Thomas Jefferson High School’s Shamar Graham adds another 162 yards rushing and another touchdown to his statistics during the Vikings’ 30-28 victory last Friday over …
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Terror on the road
After 17 years, a Chesapeake man opens up about his encounter with ‘The D.C. Snipers’
After 27 years in the Navy, Harley Peterson couldn’t help but evaluate a passing car as he would an unfamiliar ship cruising past his own off the coast of Vietnam or in the Atlantic.
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Personality: Kimberly Pleasants
Spotlight on board president of Richmond Story House
Richmond is rife with historical importance for the state, country and the world, but not all that history is treated with equal care and consideration. For all the lives and legacies that have fallen or risk falling between the cracks of a changing capital, the Richmond Story House seeks to uncover and elevate those stories.
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City Planning Commission to take up Salvation Army relocation request in new year
A holiday truce has been declared in the seven-month battle over the Salvation Army’s proposal to move its Central Virginia headquarters and shelter from Downtown to North Side.
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Thomas Jefferson High's Shamar Graham warms up for state semifinal
It’s fitting Shamar Graham wears jersey No. 2 for Richmond’s Thomas Jefferson High School.
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New 'RVA Illuminates' to kick off holiday season Dec. 6 at Kanawha Plaza
It’s the most wonderful and magical time of the year, as dazzling and brightly colored displays and holiday festivities take over the city.
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Eyes on the prize
Editorial
We find it interesting that the Richmond School Board, with all of its talk about the importance of equity and diversity, backed away from a school pairing plan when it approved new school attendance zones at its meeting this week.
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'Sorry' doesn't always make it right by Julianne Malveaux
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Billionaire Mike Bloomberg entered the already-crowded Democratic presidential primary with a splash.
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Open letter to Gov. Northam
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To Gov. Ralph S. Northam, As the elected business manager of a labor union that supported you in the 2017 election for governor, I continue to be disappointed in your actions. The comments you made to the revenue advisory council were shameful, but not surprising. The so-called “right-to-work” law does nothing but allow freeloaders on jobs covered by a union contract.
