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Prince George Blue Sox pitcher Marquis Johnson winds up for a throw during last Sunday’s game in Disputanta against the Dinwiddie County Giants. Johnson is …
Published on June 17, 2016
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Funeral service Saturday at Hampton University for NASA's Katherine Johnson
A funeral service has been set for Katherine G. Johnson, the trailblazing mathematical genius whose calculations for NASA influenced every major space program from America’s first manned space flight in 1961 to the first lunar landing in 1969 to the early years of the Space Shuttle program in the early 1980s.
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Johnson Publishing artwork going on auction block
Bankrupt Johnson Publishing Co., the former owner of Ebony and JET magazines, will sell off art that once decorated the company’s Chicago headquarters. Among the art to be auctioned Jan. 30 at a New York gallery will be paintings, sculptures and other works from 75 African-American artists.
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Rev. John E. Johnson Jr. to be installed at Union Baptist Church in Hopewell
Union Baptist Church in Hopewell has a new pastor.
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JXN Project to VUU: Do not contribute to efforts to erase Black histories
ATTN: Virginia Union University President Hakim Lucas and Board of Trustees
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New park named for city police lieutenant
A new city park is being named for the late Richmond Police Lt. Ozell Johnson, a pioneer in community policing in the city. City Council voted unanimously Sept. 28 to designate city-owned property at 241 E. Ladies Mile Road in the Providence Park neighborhood in North Side as a park and name it for Lt. Johnson. “As a lifelong city resident, I’m very excited about this honor being bestowed on my late father,” said Richmond Police Maj. Odetta Johnson.
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Mama J’s Kitchen co-owners Lester Johnson, left, and his mother, Velma R. Johnson, are working with Russell Bennett of Outdoor Affair Catering to provide food …
Published on September 17, 2015
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Independent, unbiased?
Questions raised by City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray about consulting firm’s ties to backers of the $1.5B Coliseum and Downtown development plan
A Chicago-based real estate development, hospitality, hotel and tourism consulting firm with ties to known advocates of the $1.5 billion Richmond Coliseum replacement plan has been tapped to undertake what was to be an independent and unbiased assessment of the proposal for Richmond City Council.
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Local groups host ‘Trunk or Treat’ at VMHC
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) and 24 other local organizations will present Halloween fun at the inaugural Trunk or Treat community event that will take place at the museum on Oct. 27.
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Obamas rock out with summer song playlist
Barack Obama may be the former president, but he’s still got it going on.
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Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, urges the crowd to continue to fight for voting rights and social justice. Standing with …
Published on August 5, 2021
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Stop the Violence Parade coming to Mosby Court
The Ephesus Pathfinder Club at Ephesus Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Side is organizing the first Richmond Stop the Violence Parade, it has announced.
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Deidra Johnson, a children’s book illustrator and author, participates in the African-American Book Festival with her son, Josiah Johnson, 13, who was on hand to …
Published on April 20, 2023
