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City social services department finds itself stressed with a shortage of workers
As the coronavirus stalks the city, more people are turning to the Richmond Department of Social Services for help.
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VUU alum played for late Coach Don Shula with the Baltimore Colts
A native Richmonder played at least a small role in the historic coaching legacy of the late Don Shula.
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What happens when we return to ‘normal’? by Glenn Ellis
Where should we be focusing our attention as a community at this point in the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Federal unemployment checks ease money worries for newly laid off during pandemic
Just a few weeks ago, journalist-turned-bartender and server Lyndon German was feeling desperate. In the past year, the 26-year-old Mechanicsville native has seen his reporter jobs in Hopewell and Petersburg end as a result of newsroom cutbacks, and now his restaurant job in a popular local café has disappeared as a result of COVID-19.
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Former John Marshall player Isaiah Todd jumps from high school to pros
Petersburg native Moses Malone pioneered the term “Preps to Pros” in August 1974. Now former Richmonder Isaiah Todd is a pacesetter in a new option to bypass college basketball and fast break straight from high school to dunking for dollars.
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VUU’s hopes for CIAA title crushed by Bowie State
Amir Hall has rained on Virginia Union University’s parade — “rain” coming in the form of a blizzard of pigskins.
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Veteran journalist Bob Woodward talks about truth, Trump
“There is a war on truth,” veteran investigative journalist Bob Woodward said about the current climate in the White House and across the nation.
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Lone African-American food vendor at Washington training camp
Richmond businessman Herman Baskerville, owner of Big Herm’s Kitchen on 2nd Street in Jackson Ward, again is on hand, offering a tasty Richmond welcome to NFL fans as they gather for the Washington team’s training days at the Bon Secours facility on West Leigh Street.
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Pitching legend Don Newcombe dies at 92
In the late 1940s, the Brooklyn Dodgers rattled baseball’s foundation by boldly breaking the color line. It was to be a major turning point in all professional sports.
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VSU could meet VUU in men’s final
It’s possible something could occur this week that’s never happened in CIAA Basketball Tournament history dating to 1946.
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Mueller report may be available in April
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is combing through special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, removing classified and other information in hopes of releasing the report to Congress in April.
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Sophomore Ikechi Chantilou gives spark to George Wythe squad
It almost feels unfair. Ikechi Chantilou is so quick, so athletic. And he’s only a sophomore. On a senior-laden George Wythe High basketball squad, it’s hard taking your eyes off Chantilou, a whippet-lean, 6-foot-3 guard-forward seemingly with rockets on his sneakers.
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One down
Trump’s first year in office marked by controversy and protests
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump took office, his presidency started generating controversy. Photographs showing that the crowd at President Trump’s swearing-in was smaller than at Barack Obama’s first presidential inauguration in 2009 caused the first ruckus in his administration — but not the last.
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Bigger stakes for VUU-VSU football rivalry
Area bragging rights and much, much more will be at stake Saturday, Nov. 4, when Virginia Union and Virginia State universities commence to popping pads at Rogers Stadium in Ettrick.
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Thomas Jefferson turnaround leads to regional playoffs
Richmond’s Thomas Jefferson High School is the feel-good story of this football season.
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City Council empanels Coliseum commission -- with VUU president
The final seven members of a City Council commission to review the $1.5 billion Coliseum replacement proposal have been seated — starting a 90-day clock for them to review the plan.
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Saving the past
Bradford family descendants, supporters work to protect old Sons and Daughters of Ham Cemetery
Dense woods fill much of a largely uncelebrated and essentially abandoned African-American burial ground in Henrico County that had been best known in recent years as a practice area for University of Richmond runners.
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Voting is key to change, CBC members say
Call it better living through politicking. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus emphasized the importance of political power as the key to positive change locally, statewide and nationally Saturday afternoon at the State of Black America Town Hall.
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Hanover County NAACP files federal lawsuit over schools’ Confederate names
In a novel approach, the Hanover County Branch NAACP is alleging that the county and its School Board are violating the constitutional rights of African-American residents by having schools named for military and political leaders of the slavery-defending Confederate States.
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First 400 years
Reflecting on past, realizing the present starts Aug. 22
In August 1619, more than 20 Africans landed at Point Comfort, the present-day Fort Monroe in Hampton.
