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Personality: Nichole L. Gross
Spotlight on Henrico County Public Schools’ Gilman Teacher of the Year
Being an educator can be physically and emotionally draining, says Nichole L. Gross, a Henrico County Public Schools teacher.
Personality: Samantha Thompson
Spotlight on founder and president of Esteem Teens
Samantha Thompson tries to pass along to youngsters one of the most valuable lessons she learned growing up in the Fairfield Court public housing community in Richmond’s East End. That lesson: “It doesn’t matter where you come from. Anyone can overcome those obstacles to succeed.” She founded Esteem Teens, a nonprofit mentoring group, in 2008 to impart that uplifting message to youths living in disadvantaged communities in the city. “We share our stories with the kids to do and be more than their physical address,” says Ms. Thompson, who serves as president of the organization.
Farrakhan calls on Trump to repent
Minister Louis Farrakhan called on President Trump to repent for what the Nation of Islam leader called America’s mistreatment of black people over the centuries.
Richmond woman rattled by incident with Henrico police
Qunita Jones knows how actor Ving Rhames felt when he was confronted at his California home by police investigating a neighbor’s call that a “large black man” was breaking in.
Serena claims another title in Singapore
When Serena Williams is healthy, she is still far and away the world’s top tennis player.
In April, honor memories and seek reforms, by Thomas P. Kapsidelis
Spring ought to be a time of relief and promise. The days are longer and seemingly a bit sunnier, and the end of the school year is around the corner — and with it, the hopes of graduation days ahead.
Bobbi Kristina’s autopsy shows mixture of drugs, alcohol
Bobbi Kristina Brown’s autopsy report contained evidence of recent cocaine use by the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston before she was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her home last year. But a medical examiner’s office said last Friday it could not establish whether her death after months in a coma was accidental or intentional. Ms. Brown suffered brain damage and died of pneumonia resulting from drug intoxication and her face being immersed in water, the Fulton County Medical Examiner said.
Sha’Carri Richardson blazes new trail to Tokyo Olympics
Whether watching from Jamaica, Japan or the United States, it was hard to miss that shock of flowing, orange hair that came streaking across the finish line first in Eugene, Ore., last Saturday night.
The Muslim world isn’t silent
I received a call a few days after the Paris terrorist attacks from a relative. She was, quite understandably, deeply unsettled by the attack. She asked me why it was that the Muslim community was so silent about jihadist attacks. I told her that they were — and are — not silent at all. In fact, there were — immediate — statements of condemnation of these attacks from a wide range of organizations and religious leaders in the Arab and Muslim worlds, ranging from the Free Syrian Army to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, that denounced the heinous attacks. My relative then asked me why she and so many other people had not heard word one about this?
Personality: Lucia Medek
Spotlight on co-founder and president of Salem’s Light
A chance encounter led Lucia Medek to take up the cause of animal advocacy in Richmond in a major way.
Personality: Christie W. Rasberry
Spotlight on Richmond Public Schools 2016 Teacher of the Year
Christie W. Rasberry comes from a family of educators
Dr. Tinina Cade retires after 35 years at University of Richmond
Longtime educator praised for building an infrastructure of support for students
As a new semester begins at the University of Richmond, there is one familiar face that students, faculty and staff will not see on campus this year.
Personality: Doris Henderson Causey
Spotlight on the Virginia State Bar’s first African-American president
When Doris Causey was given a class assignment in third grade to create a collage about what she wanted to be when she grew up, her creation pictured the grownup her as a lawyer.
Journalist Les Payne, a founder of NABJ, dies at 76
Les Payne, an intrepid Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who helped pave the way for another generation of African-American journalists as one of the founders and a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, died on Monday, March 19, 2018. He was 76.
Jean Allen Eggleston remembered for her substance and style
Jean Allen Eggleston, a lifelong Richmonder, died on Monday, May 1, 2023, at the age of 89. She will be remembered as loving and supportive to her family, a loyal friend, a kind teacher and a fashionista.
Federal unemployment checks ease money worries for newly laid off during pandemic
Just a few weeks ago, journalist-turned-bartender and server Lyndon German was feeling desperate. In the past year, the 26-year-old Mechanicsville native has seen his reporter jobs in Hopewell and Petersburg end as a result of newsroom cutbacks, and now his restaurant job in a popular local café has disappeared as a result of COVID-19.
Evelyn H. Price, retired teacher and church leader, dies at 85
Evelyn Louise Harris Price, a retired Richmond educator and active churchwoman, has died.
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.
Edna Keys-Chavis, first African-American and female city clerk, dies at 66
Edna Keys-Chavis made history in 1990 when she became Richmond’s first African-American and the first woman city clerk — the official record-keeper for City Council.
Bridal designer Amsale Aberra dies at 64
Bridal Fashion Week this time around will include a tribute to couture designer Amsale Aberra, who died of cancer just days before her scheduled show.
