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Howard University players celebrate their surprise 43-40 victory last Saturday over University of Nevada-Las Vegas at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas.
Published on September 8, 2017
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Howard takes on ‘Mission Impossible’ and scores big
Mike London’s University of Virginia football coaching tenure couldn’t have ended much worse. His coaching career at Howard University couldn’t have started much better. In his first game on sidelines for the Washington school, Coach London directed a head-spinning 43-40 upset victory last Saturday at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
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Virginia State University running back Trenton Cannon carries the ball into Norfolk State University territory during Saturday’s Labor Day Classic at Dick Price Stadium in …
Published on September 7, 2017
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VSU wins Labor Day Classic before crowd of 10,000-plus in Norfolk
Virginia State University continues knocking out its football opponents — even those in a larger division. Under Coach Reggie Barlow, the Trojans beat Norfolk State University 14-10 last Saturday before a crowd of 10,221 fans at the Labor Day Classic in damp Dick Price Stadium.
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Huguenot Falcons fly high with win despite storm
There are signs Huguenot High School football has weathered the storm, and not just because the team’s latest victory was achieved in drenching conditions.
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Diversity takes the field with Washington Nationals
Like the cosmopolitan city they represent on the baseball diamond, the Washington Nationals are rich in diversity. The District of Columbia becomes truly international on game days at Nationals Park, with players linked to five foreign countries and three continents.
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Megapastor tries to defend himself after Hurricane Harvey
Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston is helping Texans cope in the wake of Hurricane Harvey — and trying to counter a flood of comments on social media accusing the church of turning its back on storm victims. The church took in about 400 people from the overflow at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center, a Red Cross shelter, church spokesman Don Iloff said last week.
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Personality: Stephen M. Levinson
Spotlight on board president of the ACLU of Virginia
Stephen M. Levinson has worked for civil rights and social justice for almost a half century. And like many in his field, he has endured death threats in writing and in person.
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It’s a girl for Serena!
Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, the first child for the former world No. 1 tennis player and her fiancé, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
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Trump scraps program protecting young undocumented immigrants
President Trump on Tuesday scrapped an Obama era program that protects from deportation immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children, delaying implementation until March and giving a gridlocked Congress six months to decide the fate of almost 800,000 young people.
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Mixed messages
A Richmond Free Press newspaper box on Robinson Street in The Fan was defaced again last week with a sticker of the Confederate battle flag. In the latest graffiti, a photo of President Trump was glued over a Richmond Struggle.com sticker, an organization with a stated mission to reject patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism.
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Survey open on creating city Human Rights Commission
A four-member city task force is forging ahead on a study on creating a Human Rights Commission for Richmond. The chair, Riqia E. Taylor, announced Tuesday that the task force has set up an online survey through which city residents can provide their views on the proposal.
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Hurricane Harvey pours over Texas // An overhead view of the flooding in Houston from Buffalo Bayou on Memorial Drive and Allen Parkway as heavy …
Published on September 1, 2017
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Applications due Sept.15 for VMFA Museum Leaders in Training Program
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is accepting applications from students in grades eight through 12 for its Museum Leaders in Training Program.
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Revenge may be factor in VSU-NSU Labor Day Classic
There is no shortage of spicy story lines for the Labor Day Classic on Saturday, Sept. 2, matching old foes Virginia State and Norfolk State universities at Dick Price Stadium in Norfolk. Let’s start with the revenge factor.
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Mayweather chooses ‘right dance partner’ for final fight
At the start, Conor McGregor was cool, calm and collected, and an upset seemed possible. In the end, the rugged Irishman melted from the heat of a relentless Floyd Mayweather Jr. attack last Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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First Lady kicks off initiative to attract grocers to Va.’s food deserts
A new initiative could help bring new grocery stores to low-income areas of cities and counties that major chains no longer serve and that have been defined as food deserts.
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Monument Avenue Commission Sept. 13 meeting postponed
The Monument Avenue Commission’s much-anticipated Sept. 13 public hearing on the Confederate statues in Richmond has been postponed until sometime in October.
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Hurricane Harvey devastates Texas; blasts into Louisiana
More than 10,000 people — an overflow of evacuees — have sought refuge in the Houston Convention Center in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which struck the Texas Gulf Coast last Friday, leaving the nation’s fourth largest city and its surrounding communities in a flood of devastation.
