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Personality: Beth Furgurson

Spotlight on Birdhouse Farmers Market board co-chair

Several years ago, Beth Furgurson began paying closer attention to what she and her family were eating when she was experiencing some health issues. She started visiting farmers’ markets, learned about local foods, volunteered at a farm and began working with local food organizations.

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Making space for history

Shakia Gullette Warren said the story of African-Americans begins in Virginia. That’s part of the reason she’s excited about being the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia’s executive director. She began work in May, succeeding former interim executive director Marland Buckner, who stepped down in June 2022. Mr. Buckner took the helm after Adele Johnson, the center’s longtime executive director, died in April 2021.

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Free community testing for COVID-19 continues

The Richmond and Henrico County health districts are offering testing at the following locations:

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Average White Band headlines this year’s 2nd Street Festival

Beloved festival celebrates 35 years in Historic Jackson Ward

The 2nd Street Festival will marks its 35th anniversary when it returns Oct. 7-8 to historic Jackson Ward.

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Erica Abrams Locklear, Kidada Williams lead Library of Virginia author talks

The Library of Virginia’s Carole Weinstein Author Series continues this summer with free talks from experts on regional culture and history.

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A lifetime of racism makes Alzheimer’s disease more common in Black Americans

Constance Guthrie is not dead yet, but her daughter has begun to plan her funeral.

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Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi has FDA approval now

That means Medicare will pay for it

U.S. officials granted full approval to a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug in late June, clearing the way for Medicare and other insurance plans to begin covering the treatment for people with the brain-robbing disease.

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Gun buyback programs are ‘waste of time’

Jeremy Lazarus is correct when he reported that gun buy-back programs do not work; they do nothing to stop gun violence.

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Justices teach when the Supreme Court isn’t in session

The job doubles as all-expenses-paid trip

For decades, the University of Hawaii law school has marketed its Jurist-In-Residence program to the Supreme Court as an all-expenses-paid getaway, with the upside of considerable “down time” in paradise.

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Chaos and violence

Mass shootings claim lives at gatherings over July Fourth holiday

Mass shootings broke out at festivals, block parties and other gatherings in a handful of cities this week as the U.S. celebrated the Fourth of July. Gun violence that flared in Washington, D.C, Louisiana, Florida, Philadelphia, Texas and Baltimore left more than a dozen dead and almost 60 wounded — including children as young as 2 years old.

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RRHA approves developer’s plans for Jackson Ward hotel

$35M project among largest awarded to a Black-owned firm

Michael A. “Mike” Hopkins is on track to achieve his 20-year-old dream of developing a hotel in Richmond.

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Faith and fate of affirmative action

It’s a different colorblindness than the one envisioned in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina comes in a year of 60th anniversaries in American civil rights history.

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Weathering the storm

Lady Tomahawk’s promising start fizzles in weekend downpour

The RVA Lady Tomahawks were rolling along and enjoying a football season of mostly sunshine and blue skies. And then the storm hit, literally and figuratively.

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Free community testing for COVID-19 continues

Free community testing for COVID-19 continues.

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General Assembly likely to have record number of Black members

Now that primary results are in, the battle for control of the legislature begins in earnest ahead of the Nov. 7 general election.

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Girls For A Change launches ambassador program at Meadowbrook High School

Girls For A Change will launch its Girl Ambassador Program, a four-year, tiered approach to workforce development, at Meadowbrook High School.

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‘Our country has never been colorblind’, by Dr. E. Faye Williams

Elections always have consequences and this week we experienced Part Two of the Pro-Republican/Pro-Conservative Supreme Court. When we connect the dots, we realize the connection between Donald Trump and three of the six justices who voted to terminate Rowe AND eliminate affirmative action in college admissions.

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The aftermath of mass shootings infiltrates every corner of survivors’ lives

More than a year after 11-year-old Mayah Zamora was airlifted out of Uvalde, Texas, where she was critically injured in the Robb Elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers, the family is still reeling.

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VCU’s Project Gabriel hosts second round of community forums

A Virginia Commonwealth University commission has announced two public forums as it moves to carry out a 2021 state law requiring the school to set up a scholarship program for descendents of enslaved people and to memorialize those enslaved who helped develop the campus.

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LA’s Burke remembered in Pride Month

Glenn Burke left his mark in baseball, and not just because he was the Major Leagues’ first openly gay player.