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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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Coffee shop reopens on Brookland Park Blvd.

The Streetcar Café on North Side is back in business under new management. The coffee shop at 10 E. Brookland Park Blvd. turned on the lights and began serving patrons again Dec. 14, two weeks after the previous operators departed.

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VCU nursing school receives $13M for student scholarships

University says ‘funds will help support diversity in health care over the next five years’

Philanthropists Joanne and Bill Conway have given The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing its largest ever gift —$13 million—through its Bedford Falls Foundation-DAF.

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Delegate Bagby hosting virtual lecture Nov. 12 in new role as visiting prof at VUU

Delegate Lamont Bagby, who has since 2015 represented a district in the House of Delegates that includes parts of Richmond and Henrico County, is serving as a visiting professor at Virginia Union University for the current academic year, the university announced on Tuesday.

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Harris team blindsided by Vogue cover

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has landed on the cover of the February issue of Vogue magazine, but her team says there’s a problem: The photo of the country’s soon-to-be No. 2 leader isn’t what both sides agreed upon, her team says.

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Rep. Omar, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

A Muslim civil rights organization has called on Fox News to fire host Jeanine Pirro for questioning Rep. Ilhan Omar’s loyalty to the United States in a monologue on her weekend show “Justice with Judge Jeanine” and suggesting the Minnesota Democrat’s decision to wear a hijab is “antithetical” to the U.S. Constitution.

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New Coliseum in the works?

Where would the money come from?

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Political hypocrisy should come with a political price, by David W. Marshall

When serving as then-President Trump’s attorney in 2018, Rudy Giuliani was a guest on the Sunday morning show “Meet the Press.” During the interview with host Chuck Todd, Mr. Giuliani gave a contradictory and confusing comment that explains how supporters of the former president view the subject of truth.

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Standing on sacred ground

Three unarmed black men encountered a group of white men walking down a dirt road in Slocum, Texas, on July 29, 1910. Without warning, and with no reason, the white men opened fire on the black men. And, for two days, white men simply slaughtered black people. Eight deaths have been officially acknowledged, but historians who have studied the Slocum Massacre say that it is likely that dozens more were killed, with some saying as many were killed in Slocum as in Tulsa, Okla, in 1921, and those numbers range into the hundreds.

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June 18: Non-spending day

Letters to the Editor

Could you as an African/Black American refrain from spending money for one day?

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5 city schools get new pianos, thanks to RVA East End Festival

There will be more music in the air at five Richmond schools.

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Malevolence of Section 8 housing laws

The Black Holocaust denies are constantly among us. This is because the Black Holocaust is still going on. It didn’t end with slavery or early Jim Crow days. The Section 8 rental law was meant to keep black people from being homeowners. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers voted for this “help people” law knowing its true purpose.

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Politics served up at Rep. Scott’s Labor Day cookout

More than 1,000 people enjoyed hot dogs, hamburgers and politics Monday at the 40th Annual Labor Day Cookout hosted by Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott at his family home in Newport News.

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Forgive and hold Gov. Northam accountable

In the current political challenges facing our Commonwealth, I was taken aback by comments and ideologies espoused by the Rev. Al Sharpton during a gathering at Virginia Union University.  I vehemently disagree with Rev. Sharpton’s observations on forgiveness in this matter of Gov. Ralph S. Northam’s inappropriate actions of appearing in blackface.

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Illustrator Shannon Wright brings skills to Richmond Folk Festival official poster

Artist Shannon Wright, an illustrator and cartoonist whose work has been featured in major publications, books and online sites including The New York Times, The Atlantic magazine, The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom, Google Doodles and Scholastic, has been commissioned to create the official poster for the 16th Annual Richmond Folk Festival.