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Bon Secours details plans to increase medical access in city’s East End

Bon Secours Richmond welcomed the positive statement from the Richmond Health Coalition about its plans to improve health care in the East End, which the Free Press reported in the April 6-8 edition. “Bon Secours appreciates the coalition’s willingness to have private, meaningful conversations with us about our ‘Community Today, Community Tomorrow: Pathway to Wellness in the East End’ initiative,” spokeswoman Jenna Green stated in response to a Free Press request for comment on the statement Brian Bills, a coalition leader, issued on behalf of the coalition.

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Summit to address Black women, birthing and reproductive health

In Virginia, Black women are three times more likely to die than white women during childbirth or due to pregnancy-related causes, according to Birth in Color RVA, a birth, policy and advocacy nonprofit focused on raising awareness surrounding maternal health and reproductive justice.

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Education as the great equalizer

“We have come a long, long way, but we have a long way to go.”

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Clarence Thomas and high court’s low ethical standards, by Clarence Page

It must be more than a little embarrassing for a Supreme Court justice to lament that he took some bad legal advice. But the embarrassment will be worth it for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas if it helps him to get out from under the bigger embarrassments reported by the investigative news service ProPublica.

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Another lynching in Tennessee, by Julianne Malveaux

The abolitionist journalist Ida B. Wells’ quest to document lynchings began when three of her friends, Tommy Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Will Stewart, were lynched because white people were envious of their economic success.

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Curbing gun violence demands focus on stronger laws, helping those who’ve been hurt, by Thomas P. Kapsidelis

When Republicans in the Tennessee House were challenged on gun control after three 9-year-old children and three adults were slain at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., they responded by expelling two Black representatives who led a protest on the chamber’s floor. A white legislator survived the outrageous ouster.

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Rams lose their ‘Ace’ in the hole

The arrival of several new VCU players is imminent

The Ace Baldwin era is over at VCU. The Rams’ star point guard is heading to Penn State to join former VCU Coach Mike Rhoades.

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Mo’s coming home to VCU

Mo Alie-Cox is returning to Richmond not so much to talk about basketball or football, but to talk about the game of life.

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Help is on the way for VUU

Virginia Union University has landed one of the state’s elite high school basketball stars.

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Bonds looks forward to NFL draft

Long ago, droves of HBCU football players were drafted by the NFL and many went on to All-Pro and Hall of Fame careers.

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Embiid goes back to back

Joel Embiid has done it again. For the second straight season the Philadelphia 76ers’ center is the NBA scoring champ.

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Squirrels feast on ‘M&Ms’

The Richmond Flying Squirrels opened their season with “M&Ms” at the top of the batting menu. Not the candy kind; this is about leadoff hitter Ismael Munguia and second-in-order Luis Matos.

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PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO SEE

Whether it’s art and poetry or films and music, Richmond and surrounding communities offer a lot to everyone in the coming weeks.

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City leaders, groups propose housing crisis solutions

Following months of rising rent costs, a high number of evictions and growing housing scarcity, Richmond officials have declared that the city is in an affordable housing crisis.

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Hope for healing

7 months after New York Times exposé, healthy equity advocates, Bon Secours report progress

Bon Secours Richmond is starting to receive positive feedback from advocates who had harshly criticized the hospital system for allegedly failing to re-invest income from a federal discount pricing program into low-income communities, most notably Richmond Community Hospital and low-income residents living nearby.

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Trump charged with 34 felony counts in hush money scheme

A stone-faced Donald Trump made a momentous courtroom appearance Tuesday when he was confronted with a 34-count felony indictment charging him in a scheme to bury allegations of extramarital affairs that arose during his first White House campaign.

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Personality: Ryan Andrew Dickinson

Spotlight on Miss Gay United States challenging perceptions of drag performers

“Shocked, and overwhelmingly crippled.” That was the reaction of Ryan Andrew Dickinson, aka Bianca Blake Starr, to his victory in the 2023 Miss Gay United States Pageant last Sunday. As the 18th drag performer to win the title, Mr. Dickinson’s new role comes with a large platform and several responsibilities.

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Overcoming San Diego State, UConn wins 5th NCAA title

Call it double-digit domination.

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‘It’s been a long time coming’

VSU hopes its All-Steinway School designation will attract ‘high caliber’ piano players

After 20 years, more than $1 million, and nearly 40 pianos, Virginia State University has elevated its approach to music education. The university has replaced many of its old pianos with new instruments from the Steinway & Sons piano company.

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From Senate subcommittee to Easter sermon: Raphael Warnock on life as a pastor-politician

Raphael Warnock, U.S. senator and Baptist pastor, was wrapping up his time on Capitol Hill before heading back to his native Georgia in time for what is perhaps the busiest week of the year for Christian clergy.