Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman’s bayonet aside in July 1963 as she moves among a crowd of …

Published on July 22, 2021

Brandy Washington reacts with surprise and joy to Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s marriage proposal Tuesday at Libby Hill Park. She said “yes.”

Published on February 24, 2022

Virginia State University tailback Trenton “Boom” Cannon goes airborne for a touchdown over Virginia University University defensive back Ray Lewis III. His above and beyond …

Published on November 10, 2017

Rita Willis of Henrico County displays the poster she brought back to Richmond after marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday to …

Published on March 12, 2015

Cheryl L. Burke beams with excitement as she watches the election results roll in Tuesday night at a victory party with family, friends and supporters …

Published on November 11, 2018

Pamela White, whose son Dararius Evans was killed in 2019, was initially denied compensation by Louisiana’s program because officials blamed her son for his own …

Published on February 8, 2024

Myrna Pride is shown with her three children in a photograph taken about four years ago, she says, adding, “I am beyond pleased that the …

Published on February 9, 2023

Unicia R. Buster displays some of her art quilts as she works from the front porch of her East End home on her poster design …

Published on June 18, 2020

Tashawn D. Jones continues to recuperate at her mother’s home in Henrico County after transplant surgery in which she received part of a liver donated …

Published on December 24, 2020

Gwendolyn H. MacClenahan stands in front of the Highland Park house she planned to turn into a group home where women released from prison could …

Published on September 25, 2015

Poet Nikki Giovanni infuses humor in her wide-ranging remarks last Friday at Virginia Union University, where she was the keynote speaker at a daylong conference …

Published on May 5, 2017

State long jump champion Natalie Barnes shows off the sign delineating the distance she jumped — 19-1 — to claim the title for the Stone …

Published on July 16, 2018

Yasmeen Jaaber, 16, of Chesterfield County and a student at the Appomattox Regional Governor’s School, reads a poem she wrote during the climate change rally …

Published on September 27, 2019

Zeniyah Trent, 3, needs the support of her father, Colby Trent, as she confers with Soul Santa about her Christmas wish list Dec. 2 at …

Published on December 21, 2023

Arsenio Hall, left, and Eddie Murphy are back in Coming 2 America, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Published on March 11, 2021

Serena Williams shows the drive and intensity that propelled her to her third straight victory in the U.S. Open. She easily beat Caroline Wozniacki of …

Published on September 12, 2014

So proud! // Christine Turner of Chesapeake gets a huge hug of congratulations from her niece, Nijah Roberson, as she and other Virginia Union University …

Published on May 13, 2016

Kathy Deshazo-Jackson, who said she was one of the first African-American students to attend the former Byrd Middle School, is elated by the vote last …

Published on May 5, 2016

With a 2.6-mile head start, Dash for Cash runner Kathy Hoverman, right, makes her way to the finish line, where she beat the Monument Avenue …

Published on April 8, 2017

Brigette Newberry, center, a teacher at Richmond’s Open High School, shows the Richmond School Board that she wants it to release more information on the …

Published on May 5, 2017