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Josiah Harrison’s skills add up to a promising future in baseball

According to baseball math, power plus speed equals Josiah Harrison.

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Poor People’s Campaign, lawmakers unveil sweeping resolution to tackle poverty

Lawmakers and leaders of the faith-based Poor People’s Campaign unveiled a sweeping new resolution on May 20 designed to eradicate poverty in the United States, with activists touting it as a broad-based legislative framework that hopes to do for poverty what the Green New Deal proposes to do for environmental issues.

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Biles makes history in return to competition at U.S. Classic

Time on her hands and a world-class gym at her disposal after the 2020 Olympics were postponed, Simone Biles started experimenting almost as a way to stave off the monotony of training.

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Drake most decorated winner in Billboard Music Awards history

It was a family affair at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday. Pink twirled in the air in a powerful performance with her 9-year-old daugh- ter, Willow Sage Hart, and Drake was named artist of the decade, accepting the honor as he held his fussy 3-year-old son, Adonis Graham.

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The ‘Groundhog Day’ effect, by Dr. E. Faye Williams

I have always been amazed by the immediate, long-lasting impact of the media on cultural/ current events.

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Stacey Abrams to deliver keynote at event marking 100th anniversary of Tulsa Race Massacre

Stacey Abrams, who has become a leading national voice on ballot access, will deliver the keynote address at the “Remember & Rise” event during the Memorial Day holiday commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

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Restored Richard Wright novel involving Black man tortured by police hits best-sellers lists

More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a best-selling author and very much in line with the present.

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Parents weigh COVID-19 vaccination for their children

Kiara Gresham has been busy with the demands of her new small business, Cookie Jar Honeypot, and the need to ensure the education, health and well-being of her children during the pandemic and a virtual school year. With summer getting closer and the new school year months away, Ms. Gresham is taking on a new task: Learning all she can about vaccinating her two older children, Queron, 14, and Kaeoni, 12, against COVID-19.

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Richmonders react to new CDC mask guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 guidance May 13 saying its safe for fully vaccinated people to remove their masks in most settings, both outside and indoors.

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Answers to COVID-19 questions

With eligibility for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine expanded to children ages 12 to 15, and updates to mask mandates nationally and statewide, the Free Press has gathered answers from experts to common questions about these new developments:

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Linwood D. Ross, scoutmaster and deacon, dies at 91

Linwood Dixon Ross taught hundreds of Richmond boys to be prepared while building their confidence and helping to shaping their character.

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Why I’m investing in Live! Casino & Hotel Richmond, by Billy McMullen

Growing up, I remember my father telling me about when he was a little boy living in Jackson Ward. He spoke about sitting on my grandmother’s lap on the porch of their home at 1164 St. Paul St. as they watched the bulldozers come through to build the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike.

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Supermodel Naomi Campbell becomes mother at 50

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has become the mother of a baby girl.

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Pervis Staples, member of famed Staple Singers, dies at 85

Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice complimented his father’s and sisters’ in the legendary gospel group The Staple Singers, was remembered during a funeral service Monday, May 17, as a great singer and a great brother.

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Long road to glory

City’s own basketball legends Ben Wallace and Bobby Dandridge to be enshrined in Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame

Richmond and the CIAA will be in the house Sept. 11 when basketball legends Ben Wallace and Bobby Dandridge are inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Personality: Tina Slaughter

Spotlight on president of the LPGA Amateur Golf Association Richmond Chapter

From a young age, Tina Slaughter has been an avid golfer.

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Joye B. Moore hits the area’s sweet spot with Joyebells Sweet Potato Pies

Joye B. Moore is a sixth-generation baker whose sweet potato pies based on an old family recipe may be making their way into countless homes throughout Metro Richmond.

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5 candidates seeking Democratic nomination for governor

This year’s statewide political competition is in gear with a pack of candidates raising and spending millions of dollars during the pandemic to blend proven techniques with new ideas to win every eligible voter by and on Election Day.

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She’s No. 1

STEM teacher Ashley Bland surprised as RPS Teacher of the Year

Friday was a festive day in Richmond’s West End with the sounds of the 1965 hit “Dancing in the Street” by Martha and the Vandellas playing as news crews began setting up in front of John B. Cary Elementary School.

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Richmond sheriff’s race heats up

Sheriff Antionette V. Irving wants voters to re-elect her to a second four-year term based on her track record operating the Richmond City Justice Center and handling other duties of the office.