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Gov. Glenn Youngkin and First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin read the popular book “Where the Wild Things Are” to Alexis Evans’ first grade class at Carver Elementary School on Thursday, Jan. 19. The governor’s visit was in support of the expansion of a new Virginia education law, the Virginia Literacy Act (VLA).The legislation passed during last year’s Virginia General Assembly and becomes effective during the 2024-2025 school year. “We want to have an academic and education system that raises the ceiling for all of our children and recognizes that we have kids that need some extra support,” said Gov. Youngkin. “We can do both.”

Gov. Glenn Youngkin and First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin read the popular book “Where the Wild Things Are” to Alexis Evans’ first grade class at …

Published on January 26, 2023

“Woman. Life. Freedom.,” a new mural painted on the side of a vacant car wash building at 1205 Arthur Ashe Blvd., shows support for protesters in Iran who are fighting in support of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Jina Amini, pictured, who was wrongfully taken into custody by the Iranian police. She was in a coma for three days and died on Sept. 16, 2022. Her alleged crime? Ms. Amini, 22, was visiting the capital city of Tehran on vacation from another part of her country of Iran and the “Morality Police” arrested her because her hair was not properly secured under her hijab, a head covering worn by some Muslim women, explains Ari Abad, an Iranian-American who came to Richmond when she was 17. Ms. Abad later co-founded, Woman Life Freedom RVA, which led the local mural project

“Woman. Life. Freedom.,” a new mural painted on the side of a vacant car wash building at 1205 Arthur Ashe Blvd., shows support for protesters …

Published on February 9, 2023

Dr. Betty N. Crutcher welcomes representatives of the W. Montague Cobb/National Medical Institute to the University of Richmond where her husband, Dr. Ronald Crutcher is president. With her, from left, are Martin Hamlette, executive director of the National Medical Association; Dr. Randall C. Morgan Jr., executive director of the Cobb Institute; Dr. Oliver T. Brooks, NMA president; Dr. Rahn K. Baley, Cobb board chair; and Terone B. Greene, Cobb board treasurer. UR’s first lady serves on the Cobb board and arranged the three-day visit last month of the board of the institute, whose mission is to use research and learning to reduce race-based health disparities and which also seeks to encourage more African-American college students to enter the medical field. The board met with representatives of UR and Virginia Commonwealth University to learn more about their diversity efforts. Founded in 2004, the Cobb Institute is named for a pioneering African-American anthropologist. (Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press)

Dr. Betty N. Crutcher welcomes representatives of the W. Montague Cobb/National Medical Institute to the University of Richmond where her husband, Dr. Ronald Crutcher is …

Published on October 11, 2019

City workers Zachary Smith and D’Jermaine Layne remove graffiti from a building in the 2900 block of West Broad Street that a city official described as an “eyesore in the middle of the city.” Mr. Smith and Mr. Layne are part of a Richmond Department of Public Works crew that focuses on eliminating unwanted scribbles, initials and messages spraypainted in public spaces and on public and privately owned buildings. The department currently deploys two teams of six people and is now assembling a third team to expand the effort, according to Bobby Vincent, director of the Department of Public Works. Mayor Levar M. Stoney visited the project Monday to spotlight the department’s efforts to remove graffiti and to show that the city is committed to this seemingly never-ending effort to keep buildings spruced up. Mr. Vincent reported that the crews already have removed graffiti from 1,000 locations since July 1, double the number from the same period in 2020-21. His hope is that the dedicated crews can deal with at least 1,500 locations by June 30 and do even more locations next year. In addition, the department is contacting building owners to get them involved in this ongoing initiative. “We want to be able to clean up,” he said, but he also noted that owners need to take responsibility for tackling the problem as well.

City workers Zachary Smith and D’Jermaine Layne remove graffiti from a building in the 2900 block of West Broad Street that a city official described …

Published on April 14, 2022

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