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Michael B. Jordan accepts the award for best actor in a motion picture for his role as crusading Harvard-educated attorney Bryan Stevenson in the movie …
Published on February 28, 2020
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Kim B. Gray beams as Viola O. Baskerville, a former city councilwoman and state official, leads applause Sunday for the first announced challenger to Mayor …
Published on March 6, 2020
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The Rev. Tyler C. Millner Sr., shown here at the Allix B. James Chapel in Coburn Hall at Virginia Union University, co-founded Community Learning Week …
Published on December 28, 2023
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City Council setting up procedures for public meetings online
The Richmond City Council is moving to set up processes and procedures for holding online public meetings, including ways to gain resident comments on legislation, it was announced Tuesday.
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$1M upgrade at Main Library in Downtown
Every day, dozens of people flood into the Main Library in Downtown to use public computers. They come to check emails, seek employment, do research and handle other activities in the online world, including paying bills and applying for visas.
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Mountain of Blessings starts Chesterfield satellite service Nov. 1
Henrico-based Mountain of Blessings Christian Center is making a fresh go at expanding south of the James River nine months after its bid to buy the Richmond Christian Center on the city’s South Side was rebuffed.
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Children paying the price for gun violence
Gun reform has been revisited time after time. It is time now for action to be taken. Gun violence has continued to plague Richmond’s African-American community.
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Streamers fly as the new Arthur Ashe Boulevard street signs are unveiled last Saturday by David O. Harris Jr., nephew of Arthur Ashe, left, City …
Published on June 28, 2019
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Joye B. Moore shows off one of her Joyebells Sweet Potato Pies at her production facility at Hatch Kitchen RVA in South Side. Working behind …
Published on May 20, 2021
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An emotional state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan, head of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission that spearheaded the creation of the monument, is …
Published on January 6, 2022
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Celebrating Cardinal Elementary’s dedication with a ribbon-cutting are, several students and, from left, School Board member Nicole Jones; Principal Juvenal E. Abrego- Meneses; School Board …
Published on August 19, 2021
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Sheila Johnson poses with culinary experts Dr. Jessica B. Harris and Kwame Onwuachi during this year’s “Kwame Onwuachi Presents The Family Reunion” Aug. 17-20. Right: …
Published on September 21, 2023
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Locked out
Report: Fewer mortgages approved in predominately African-American, Latino areas
The greater the number of African-Americans and Latinos living in a Richmond neighborhood, the tougher it is for home buyers in the neighborhood to get a mortgage approved or for existing owners to get their home loans refinanced. That’s the rule of thumb that prevails among banks and online mortgage lenders, according to a new report from the Richmond-based fair housing watchdog group, Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia.
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School day care?
Empty public school buildings may be central to city task force plan to help parents with day care as they return to work
Sharonda Robinson hoped against hope that Richmond Public Schools would reopen this fall so her sons, ages 6 and 8, could be in school taking classes while she went to work.
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Budget dispute may slow plans to redevelop Boulevard
A little noticed budget dispute in the General Assembly could slow Richmond’s rush to transform 61 acres of largely vacant city property on North Boulevard into retail stores, a hotel, offices and apartments. The House of Delegates and the Senate appear to be split over approving Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s proposal to authorize the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to spend up to $105 million to buy land and develop a new headquarters and warehouse complex.
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RPS ramping up online learning
Distance learning via computers soon could become more robust for public school students in Richmond while schools are closed.
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Signs of spring abound, from robins to daffodils to baseball. Here, Nutzy, the mascot of the Richmond Flying Squirrels, climbs the steps of The Diamond …
Published on March 13, 2020
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School Board moves on plan for 4 new schools
The Richmond School Board has started the process to replace four aging school buildings, three in South Side and one in Church Hill.
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Black people and COVID-19, by Sa’ad El-Amin
As the United States is trying to reopen after a nearly total shutdown caused by COVID-19, one of the major questions is whether it is too early to re- open and, by doing so, whether there will be a second round of infections and deaths.
