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Sororities host back-to-back college fairs
Headed to college and need scholarship help? Good news. Two sororities are offering college fairs on back-to-back weekends to help high school students secure scholarships and provide them and their parents with information and access to other assistance.
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Va. NAACP holds state conference this weekend
Politics will be the major feature of the annual three-day convention of the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP this weekend in Henrico County.
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Dorothy Olivia Fletcher Jefferson, 78, longtime financial secretary at 31st St. Baptist Church, dies
Dorothy Olivia Fletcher Jefferson performed one last service for Thirty-first Street Baptist Church when she died. She brought together a pastor and congregation that has faced division and discord.
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Saturday’s showdown: VUU vs. VSU
If you’re a CIAA football fan in Virginia, this is as good as it gets: Virginia State at Virginia Union for the Northern Division supremacy. The winner will go to the CIAA championship game Nov. 8 in Durham, N.C., with a chance to advance to the NCAA Division II playoffs.
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Mary Frances Warden Lambert remembered
The Richmond community is remembering and celebrating the life of Mrs. Lambert, who nourished the souls and spirits of countless people with her gentle kindness and a popular catering business that was famous throughout the area and beyond.
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VSU wins NCAA first-round playoff game
Virginia State University’s football season falls into the category, “Who would have thought?”
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Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 89
Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89.
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Black excellence
We often hear the expression “Black excellence,” particularly when Black people, individually or collectively, achieve the seemingly impossible.
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Virginians lend helping hand after Mississippi storms
When storms tore through Mississippi and the surrounding states of Texas and Alabama last month, the devastation made national news. At least 25 people were killed, and hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed.
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‘Golden girls’
U.S. women bring home top medals from the Olympics
Red, white and blue added up to a treasure chest of gold at the Tokyo Olympics. Let’s meet the “Golden girls.”
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Longtime John Marshall coach Frank Threatts Jr., 78, dies
Though he stood just 5-foot-5, Frank Threatts Jr. cast a powerful shadow over area high school basketball for the better part of a half century.
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Trump milking taxpayers
President Trump doesn’t want to spend federal dollars on after-school programs, meals for poor people or heating assistance that helps keep folks alive. But he has no problem wasting more than $3 million a pop to spend weekends at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
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Meet the Morrisseys
Attorney Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey took a break last weekend from his campaign to be Richmond’s next mayor to wed Myrna Warren, the young woman he went to jail for 17 months ago.
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VUU wallops VSU; still looking for NCAA playoff berth
Virginia Union University continues to present a powerful case for an NCAA Division II football playoff berth.
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Drake most decorated winner in Billboard Music Awards history
It was a family affair at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday. Pink twirled in the air in a powerful performance with her 9-year-old daugh- ter, Willow Sage Hart, and Drake was named artist of the decade, accepting the honor as he held his fussy 3-year-old son, Adonis Graham.
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NSU wins bragging rights after Battle of the Bay
Terrance Ervin is among the most successful quarterbacks in state high school football history. Now it seems he has carried that winning spirit to the college campus.
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Free Press reporter honored by South Richmond church
Dr. Michael A. Sanders, pastor at Mount Olive Baptist Church, presented Free Press reporter Joey Matthews with a plaque during the worship service Sunday, Nov. 16, at the church at 2611 Bells Road.
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Educator Evangeline C. Brooks’ ‘unselfish life’ celebrated
Dedicated educator. Lifelong faith leader. Strong, caring mother.
