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Area colleges make changes in wake of omicron variant
Virginia State University is moving its spring semester courses online for the first two weeks because of the surge in COVID-19 cases.
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Dollars for scholars // The 33 winners of the KLM Scholarship Foundation’s 2016 Book Scholarships gather for the awards ceremony last Saturday at Linwood Holton …
Published on August 13, 2016
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Virginia is for lovers and pride Alvion Davenport, left, Ms. Black RVA Pride takes the microphone to highlight several of the organizations and vendors at …
Published on July 26, 2018
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Richmond’s banking desert grows
Outside of Downtown, the eastern half of Richmond – which tends to be largely African-American and Latino—has increasingly become a banking desert, bereft of branch banks that are more commonplace in the Downtown and western half of the city.
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The Market @ 25th working to build success
The opening of The Market @ 25th last April was marked with great fanfare, Armstrong High School’s marching band, a balloon release and high hopes for a community known for being a food desert.
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Name change coming for Washington NFL and Cleveland MLB teams?
More than a dozen Native American leaders and organizations sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday calling for the league to force the Washington NFL team owner Dan Snyder to change the team name immediately.
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Janis Jones, right, and Mary Beth Joyner, librarians at the former Byrd Middle School, ask Henrico School Board members to change the school’s name on …
Published on May 5, 2016
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Standing together // In the wake of a rash of vandalism at Jewish cemeteries and community centers across the nation, more than 200 people attend …
Published on March 24, 2017
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Focus on women’s health: Participants listen to keynote speaker Dr. Faye Belgrave, a health psychology professor and director of the Center for Cultural Experiences in …
Published on March 15, 2019
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Focus on women’s health: Participants listen to keynote speaker Dr. Faye Belgrave, a health psychology professor and director of the Center for Cultural Experiences in …
Published on March 15, 2019
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Down Home Family Reunion is ‘Bringing the World Home’
The 32nd Annual Down Home Family Re- union will bring music, dance, stories, food, shopping and enrichment to Jackson Ward’s Abner Clay Park on Saturday, Aug. 19. Presented by the Elegba Folklore Society, this year’s cultural arts festival highlights “A Celebration of African American Folklife.”
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Two Richmond properties being eyed for redevelopment
GRTC is shopping for a buyer for its former headquarters in the Fan District — five years after the bus company moved to South Side.
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From R&B to gospel, Barky’s has changed with the times
When Barksdale “Barky” Haggins opened Barky’s Record Shop in 1956 in Downtown, some people were determined to see he didn’t stay in business for long. “White record distributors in Richmond wouldn’t sell me records to stock the store,” the affable entrepreneur recalls. Undeterred, Mr. Haggins traveled by car to Washington or New York City once a month with about $400 and purchased as many records as possible to sell in his store, located at the time at 407 N. 1st St. “Records cost about 59 cents back then and albums ranged from $1.98 to $3.98 for the most popular ones,” Mr. Haggins said.
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Minority-owned companies waited months for federal COVID-19 relief loans
Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks that would accept their applications or were disadvantaged by the terms of the program.
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Biden in State of the Union: ‘Finish the job’
President Biden exhorted Congress on Tuesday night to work with him to “finish the job” of rebuilding the economy and uniting the nation as he delivered a State of the Union address aimed at reassuring a country beset by pessimism and fraught political divisions.
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State legislature oblivious to plight of working poor
On Jan. 19, while the rest of the nation was giving recognition to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Virginia Senate’s Commerce and Labor Committee voted down one of several measures that would have increased the state’s minimum wage.
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Priest caught in political fire reinstated as House chaplain
Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan has announced he will reinstate the Rev. Patrick Conroy as chaplain for the House of Representatives after the controversial Jesuit priest challenged the stated rationale for removing him.
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Veterans Day ceremony and Armistice Day Festival Nov.11 at the Carillon
Gov. Ralph S. Northam will help commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I as the speaker at the annual Commonwealth of Virginia Veterans Day Ceremony at 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at Dogwood Dell Amphitheater in Byrd Park, 600 S. Boulevard.
