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2 HBCU athletes on rosters for Super Bowl teams

Much has changed during the last 54 years regarding HBCU participation on Super Bowl Sunday.

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Local connection to Kansas City Chiefs

There is a local connection between the Richmond area and last Sunday’s Super Bowl.

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3 ousted in Richmond Police shakeup

Richmond Police Chief Gerald M. Smith overhauled his command staff this week in his first big personnel shakeup since taking office seven months ago.

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Super performances expected from Devin White and Tyrann Mathieu in Super Bowl LV

If Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes are the rocket launchers for Super Bowl LV, then Devin White and Tyrann Mathieu represent the anti-aircraft.

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City facing potential $15M deficit?

Is there a big hole developing in Rich- mond’s budget? And could spending be proposed to shrink in the new 2021-22 budget that Mayor Levar M. Stoney will present in March?

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Samuel W. Tucker was a ‘giant among giants’

As we enter Black History Month, don’t forget Samuel W. Tucker.

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President Biden begins work on unfinished business of Trump administration

President Biden’s launch this month of a series of ambitious goals focused on resetting the nation’s agenda is being steadily packed with suggestions he include the endless list of unresolved issues left on the table by the last president.

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Super Bowl LV will be a match between old and new QB stars

The Greatest of All Time vs. the next Greatest of All Time — Tom Brady vs. Patrick Mahomes.

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NY Jets’ Robert Saleh first Muslim head coach in NFL

Robert Saleh is the first Muslim to become a head coach in the NFL.

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America’s new day

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris are sworn into office in an uplifting ceremony

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued a ringing call to the nation and began throwing out the damaging, corrosive policies of his predecessor after being sworn into office Wednesday along with his history-making vice president, former U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California.

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Monacan’s Kendrick Warren Jr. may be the next ‘Special K’

The “Kendrick Warren Show, Part 2” is coming soon to a basketball court near you.

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State Police to probe handling of city contract to remove rebel statues

Did Mayor Levar M. Stoney violate the state’s procurement law when his administration provided a sole-source emergency contract worth $1.8 million to remove city-owned Confederate statues?

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Will Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes be ready to play in AFC final?

Much is known about this NFL season after hundreds of games and five grueling months of popping pads. But it is the unknown that’s likely to spark the most conversation leading into the conference championships this Sunday, Jan. 24.

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Gun prohibition needs to be applied

Once again, citizens of the city of Richmond avoided Downtown on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday as a group of white supremacists smelled their musk and paraded in soldier costumes, flaunting assault weapons, each having a magazine of 30 to 40 bullets.

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Day of reckoning

The U.S. House of Representatives votes to impeach President Trump for a second time, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob takeover of the U.S. Capitol

The reckoning has begun. Even as his followers were being arrested and he prepares to leave office in a few days, President Trump was labeled a “clear and present danger” to the nation’s security in becoming the first chief executive in U.S. history to be impeached twice – this time for the failed Jan. 6 insurrection in which he incited followers to carry out the biggest attack on the U.S. Capitol since 1814 when British troops burned it.

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Black officer hailed as hero

A Black U.S. Capitol Police officer is being hailed a hero for steering an angry mob away from the U.S. Senate chambers in last week’s deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of the president.

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Charges dismissed against Sen. Morrissey

State Sen. Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey wants a public apology from Attorney General Mark R. Herring.

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City Council votes to acquire more land for slave memorial

Despite objections from the landowner, Richmond City Council cleared the way for Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s administration to buy 1.75 acres of private property in Shockoe Bottom to provide extra space for a proposed Enslaved African Heritage Campus.

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Chickens have come home to roost

The chickens have come home to roost in America.

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Was insurrection an inside job? by Julianne Malveaux

If you watched the disgraceful invasion of the U.S. Capitol and the horrific destruction that took place on Jan. 6, you observed a legion of limited-intelligence, low-life louts.