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Personality: Laurinda Finn-Davis, RN

Spotlight on Va. Health Dept.’s Central Region Nurse of the Year

Laurinda Finn-Davis, RN, represents the epitome of giving. The reproductive health nursing supervisor with the Richmond City Health District regularly goes above and beyond the requirements of service and care to ensure that people are valued.

Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It is a privilege to join you tonight. We are here in Fall River, Mass., a proud American city built by immigrants.  

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Cherished Holiday Memories

Four Richmond area residents shared with the Richmond Free Press their most cherished holiday memories. We hope their reflections will bring to mind joyful recollections of your own during this special season.

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Readers weigh in on Coliseum and Downtown development proposal

Re: “Thumbs down: City Council-appointed advisory commission rejects $1.5B Coliseum and Downtown redevelopment plan after 3-month review,” Free Press Dec. 26-28 edition:

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Personality: Tonya L. Childs

Spotlight on coordinator of Catena L. Parker Foundation annual walk

Tonya L. Childs is a soft-spoken woman with a big heart.

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Divine sounds: Foote family celebrates gospel radio station's first anniversary

Foote family celebrates gospel radio station’s first anniversary

Richmond radio station WQCN is marking its first anniversary of delivering gospel to fans in the area on 105.3 FM. Better known as “The Choice,” the station is the growing broadcast arm of the 150-member Faith & Love Fellowship Church based on South Side.

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Gentrification: The ‘Negro Removal’ program displacing black people, culture

Gentrification has emerged as a major threat to black communities that have been centers for black business and economic development, cultural and civic life for generations.

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‘I’m done’: Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham announces his last day on the force will be Dec. 31

“I’m done. I don’t have another position waiting.” So said Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham after publicly announcing Tuesday he will retire effective Sunday, Dec. 31.

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Personality: LaFarn L. Burton

Spotlight on president of nonprofit LB Beauty Education Foundation

If you want to make the beauty industry your livelihood, you want to be the best there is.

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Personality: Vinara L. Mosby

Spotlight on organizer of RVA Entrepreneurs

Endless possibilities and a spirit of giving drive the RVA Entrepreneurs. The organization was created in June by a handful of people in a variety of fields who are eager to share knowledge gleaned from a combined 100 years-plus of experience.

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Bienvenidos to VUU

The historically Black university plans to enroll 450 Hispanic students by 2024 to obtain federal designation as a Hispanic-serving institution, according to VUU President Hakim J. Lucas

Within three years, Virginia Union University wants 25 percent of its undergraduate students to be Hispanic, according to university President Hakim J. Lucas.

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Trump evangelical advisers exposed to COVID-19 flout CDC guidelines, preach in public

At least two faith leaders, including one of President Trump’s unofficial evangelical advisers, have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a White House Rose Garden ceremony and a separate evangelical gathering in Wash- ington.

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The dope on marijuana

Here’s what’s legal and what’s not in Virginia beginning Thursday, July 1

Potheads, rejoice. Smoking a joint will be legal in Virginia beginning next Thursday, July 1.

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‘They tried to ban one. We’re coming back with a hundred’

Hundreds of pastors both rallied and prayed last week outside the trial of three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. They gathered in response to a defense lawyer’s bid to keep Black ministers out of the courtroom.

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’Surviving COVID: Local author details battle her husband endured and she waged against the virus

He survived. This is the detail that Charlene Warner Coleman wants Richmond — and the world, really — to know about her husband, Ed Coleman, and his near-death battle with COVID-19 during the pandemic’s early stages in 2020 when the hope of a vaccine was moving into a national reality.

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Student protests bring down Mizzou president, chancellor

The University of Missouri’s president stepped down Monday, and its chancellor moved aside, after protests by the school’s students and football team over alleged inaction against racial abuse on campus.

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Stoney to be city’s youngest mayor

Levar Stoney will be the next mayor of Richmond. Belying earlier polls that portrayed him as an also-ran in the contest, Mr. Stoney swept to a surprising outright victory in Tuesday’s election by capturing five of the nine City Council districts — the magic number.

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Chief Durham refutes claims that smell of weed falsely being used for searches

Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham said he has sought to hold his department to high standards and to impose discipline when he finds officers fail to uphold them.

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Stacey Abrams’ zeal for activism began with preacher parents

Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader who lost a razor-thin race for governor in 2018, voted on Oct. 15, driving her ballot to a local drop box.

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Personality: Earl Reid

Spotlight on the Military Retirees Club president

Earl Reid always knew he wanted to serve in the military, prompted in part by walking past the Military Retirees Club, which was not far from the Gilpin Court neighborhood in which he grew up.