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State NAACP on the move

I have watched the Virginia State Conference NAACP up close over a number of years as a result of my membership initially in the Chesterfield County Branch NAACP and now the Richmond Branch NAACP.

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UR president to present Facebook Live performance

Move over Andrea Bocelli and John Legend. University of Richmond President Ronald A. Crutcher is sharing his music with the world as well.

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Racial bias in hiring still hurts African-Americans, study shows

Racial bias in hiring African-Americans has not declined from 1990 to 2015. That was the finding of the largest and most comprehensive meta analysis of its kind published Sept. 12 in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Joy of Dance

Dance events happen all over downtown.

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Russia, China alliance over Ukraine spells danger

In numerous recent published reports, the public seemed pretty courageous when debating what sanctions should be taken against Russia’s genocide in Ukraine.

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A winning recipe

John Marshall High School ran through a strong field on its way to its first Chick-fil-A Classic championship.

Expand Medicaid in the commonwealth

Expanding Medicaid in Virginia should be the dominant issue in the Virginia General Assembly session that begins in January.

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Officer, once beaten by colleagues, to lead Boston Police

A former Boston Police officer who was beaten more than 25 years ago by colleagues who mistook him for a shooting suspect will be the new leader of the city’s police department, Mayor Michelle Wu announced Wednesday.

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Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and a new justice

The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench, the public back in the courtroom and a spirited debate in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights.

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Criminal charges filed in Michigan water crisis

The Flint water crisis became a criminal case Wednesday when two state regulators and a city employee were charged with official misconduct, evidence tampering and other offenses over the lead contamination that alarmed the country and brought cries of racism.

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City Council OKs expensive NFL training center refinancing

Taxpayers cannot escape paying for the Washington pro football team’s summer training camp, a reluctant Richmond City Council has decided.

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Upset: Challenger ‘Joe’ Morrissey garners Petersburg support to handily beat incumbent Sen. Rosalyn Dance in Tuesday’s primary

Challenger Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey, proving tougher and more resilient than his critics anticipated, cruised Tuesday to a surprisingly easy victory over incumbent state Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance of Petersburg in a Democratic primary election.

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Cherished Holiday Memories 2020

The holidays bring their own flood of memories — the joyful and the bittersweet.

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Personality: Stephan A. Hicks

Spotlight on founder of nonprofit My Brother’s Keeper of Greater Richmond

“Men are the greatest resource in our city. However, services focusing on men in Richmond are severely lacking. When it comes to helping men get on their feet, there is little offered.”

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‘Tomorrow can be better’

Gov. Ralph S. Northam is sworn in as Virginia’s 73rd chief executive

“Virginians didn’t send us here to be Democrats or Republicans. They sent us here to solve problems.” So said Ralph Sherer Northam on Saturday after he was sworn in as Virginia’s 73rd governor with his wife, Pam, and children beside him.

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Biden didn’t make Israeli-Palestinian talks a priority; Arab leaders say region now paying the price

From its first months in office, the Biden administration made a distinctive decision on its Middle East policy: It would de-prioritize a half-century of high-profile efforts by past U.S. presidents, particularly Democratic ones, to broker a broad and lasting peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Year after the slap, Chris Rock punches back in Netflix special

A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal in a forceful stand-up special, streamed live on Netflix, in which the comedian bragged that he “took that hit like Pacquiao.”

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VSU, NSU still facing cutbacks

Cutbacks. That’s what Norfolk State and Virginia State universities are facing because of surprisingly steep enrollment drops. Enrollment at both of the state-funded, historically black institutions peaked in 2012 and then began a sharp decline. Based on current projections, both schools expect to enroll at least 25 percent fewer students in the fall than in 2012. That means less income and more need to reduce spending on staff and programs.

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Charles L. Conyers, consummate educator and retired state education administrator, dies at 92

Charles Lee Conyers believed that a good education was the ticket out of poverty.

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Church Hill North project among city’s costliest new apartments

Some of the costliest apartments in Richmond are being built on the former site of Armstrong High School in the 1600 block of North 31st Street in the East End — miles away from the hot development centers of Manchester, Scott’s Addition and Downtown.