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Education funding, voting rights top Virginia Legislative Black Caucus’ 2019 priorities
The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus on Wednesday outlined a legislative agenda that addresses education, civil rights, voting rights and criminal justice reforms.
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Los Angeles Rams, New England Patriots headed to Super Bowl LIII
Rematch! The Los Angeles Rams will get a long-awaited chance for redemption in Super Bowl LIII when they meet the New England Patriots on Sunday, Feb. 3.
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The shutdown and collateral damage
As I write this, our federal government has been shut down for more than a month. At first, it seemed like a gamesmanship joke, like who was going to blink first.
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The fight for the 2020 vote, by Stacy M. Brown
Since the onset of COVID-19, voter registration in the United States has decreased by a whopping 90 percent.
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Homage to Dr. Seuss and education
March 2 was the 116th birthday of the beloved author, Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss.
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NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson takes her place among the stars
Three African-American astronauts joined hundreds of other mourners Saturday, March 7, at a funeral service for trailblazing mathematician and NASA pioneer Katherine G. Johnson.
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Daily Planet, CAHN and CrossOver clinics provide COVID-19 testing
As the coronavirus arrived in Richmond, the nonprofit Daily Planet Health Services in Downtown was among the quickest to set up a testing operation for its mostly low-income and homeless patients.
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VCU researcher asks: Could AR-12 help combat COVID-19?
Dr. Paul Dent is frustrated that a virus-killing compound he spent years investigating is not being used as a treatment in the current coronavirus pandemic.
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Making sense of the 2020 Census, by Logan James
We know all lives matter, but are all lives being counted?
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VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art embraces community with grand opening block party Saturday
For more than a year, curious eyes in Richmond and across the nation have watched an angularly shaped structure rise at the corner of Broad and Belvidere streets, the newest offering in the country’s array of contemporary art museums and spaces.
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Memories of the ‘Queen of Soul’
My most precious memory of the great Aretha Franklin occurred in the early 1970s when I was an associate editor of Ebony magazine and working in Johnson Publishing Co.’s New York office.
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Major cracks begin to show in Trump White House
Senior officials in President Trump’s administration have been working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda to protect the country from his worst impulses, an anonymous Trump official wrote in a column published by the New York Times on Wednesday.
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Court may wind up redrawing lines for House of Delegates districts
Federal judges could end up redrawing the boundaries of 11 districts in the House of Delegates — including four in the Richmond-Petersburg area and seven in Hampton Roads — that were found to be illegally overloaded with black voters.
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Panthers roar to 34-28 overtime win in season opener
Two Taylors added up to one exciting Virginia Union University football victory as the Alvin Parker coaching era got underway.
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Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge breaks world marathon record
Kenya’s Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge pulverized the marathon world record with a blistering run last Sunday, slicing a staggering 78 seconds off the previous best to land the one major running crown that had eluded him.
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VSU kicks it up a notch to beat Shaw 34-17
The 2018 Virginia State University football team is starting to look a lot like the 2017 version, which is exciting news around Ettrick.
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School grading practices inaccurate, inequitable
The battle for equity in our schools is not only a fight to guarantee access to great teaching and high quality learning environments, programs and materials. The battle also includes the practices and policies that teachers use to describe students’ success or failure in school.
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Objectification of the highest order
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh has given us even more reasons to believe he is not fit to be seated on the nation’s highest court.
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Ray Lewis III living outside his father’s shadow at VUU
He has the name and he has the game. When you spot the name Ray Lewis on the Virginia Union University football roster, you take notice.
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Jamie Nolan wins city Democratic Committee leadership post
The rising political influence of women is being felt in Richmond. In an unprecedented move, the reorganized Richmond City Democratic Committee elected five women to the top six leadership positions Saturday in undergoing a major shakeup.
