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Democratic primary for 14th Senate District underway

With early voting ongoing for the June 20 Democratic primary, the candidates each spoke with the Richmond Free Press about some of the issues that are on the minds of voters in the new 14th Senate District.

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Legislating with power and purpose

Jennifer McClellan’s historic first year in Congress

March 7, 2024, marked one year since Jennifer L. McClellan made history, winning a special election to succeed the late A. Donald McEachin and become the first Black woman elected to Congress from Virginia.

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An hour can save a life

More diverse blood donors needed amid emergency shortage nationwide

National Blood Donor Month might have ended Jan. 31, but ongoing shortages in Virginia and nationally mean that the need for donors remains critical.

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‘Walk Through Fire’

Sheila Johnson’s memoir explores love, loss and triumph

For four days and three nights in mid-August, Sheila Crump Johnson, cofounder of Black Entertainment Television and CEO of Salamander Hotels & Resorts, hosted hundreds of guests at her 340-acre Salamander Resort and Spa near Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Reflections about Roland ‘Duke’ Ealey

He ‘was very much a Richmond fixture and everybody who knew him respected him’

Jody Lynn Allen, a history professor and the Robert Francis Engs director of The Lemon Project at The College of William & Mary, is eager to learn what Mr. Ealey’s papers reveal about civil rights in regions outside of the Lower South.

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