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  VUU, VSU join public schools to retain Black and Latino male teachers
  
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  VP Harris urges grads to tackle problems in unsettled world
  
  Abortion battle erupts with leaded U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19
  
  ‘Something in the Water’ flows to D.C.
  
  Former London Fashion Week designer pivots with success after being wrongly imprisoned in ...
  
  Archbishop Desmond Tutu, lion of anti-apartheid movement, dies at 90
  
  Afghanistan: To go, to stay; either way, many are likely to pay
  
  Woman unaware she had $39M lottery ticket in purse for weeks
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  Children left behind
  
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  A Mother’s Day gift
  
  Echoes of Minneapolis, Charleston, by Dr. E. Faye Williams
  
  Black businesses matter, by Benjamin Chavis Jr.
  
  Racial disparities in abortion rates, by Clarence Page
  
  Supreme Court wasn’t always a threat, by Ben Jealous
  
  Former governor’s behavior ‘baffles and confuses Black people’
  
  Richmonders should help police stop violence
  
  ‘The government should not butt in’ on abortions
  
  State employee excoriates Virginia’s new return-to-the-workplace policy
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  Two years after George Floyd’s murder, racial trauma permeates Black Americans
  
  New St. Philip’s rector envisions a more inclusive ministry
  
  Black Catholic nuns: A compelling, long-overlooked history
  
  Pastor Anthony Franklin Sr. sees his mission as giving back where a community ...
  
  Buffalo supermarket victim Kat Massey, 72, laid to rest
  
  Plurax’s COO Denise Fields has died
  
  Ellalee Fountain Flowers dies at age 98
  
  Basketball legend Bob Lanier dies after cancer battle
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  Personality: The Rev. Shay W. Auerbach
  
  Personality: Kiara Thompson
  
  Personality: Dr. Kate Hoof
  
  Personality: LeTeisha Gordon
  
  2 artistic directors join Virginia Repertory Theatre
  
  Memorial Day service at Fort Harrison Cemetery
  
  12 debut at Cotillion
  
  VSU’s 2022 graduates heralded for hard work, sacrifices and technological savvy
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- A salute to Richmond’s notable basketball stars
  
  Virginia State University’s new football coach sports impressive record
  
  VCU Reaches Scholarship Allowance
  
  Welcome Home
  
  Former VSU, Hermitage High athlete heads to Commanders
Black Experience
- 'Architect of rock 'n' roll,' Little Richard, dies at 87
  
  Grammy-winning singer Betty Wright succumbs at 66
  
  Andre Harrell, who founded Uptown Records and launched many careers, dies at 5
  
  First 400 years
  
  Big 10 football rivalry creates George Jewett Trophy
  
  Olympian and activist Lee Evans, who took iconic stand at 1968 Mexico City ...
  
  Legend of screen and television Cicely Tyson dies at 96
  
  Beloved slugger, MLB Hall of Famer Hank Aaron dies at 86
  
  Hampton University announces new president
  
  Obamas break ground for $830M presidential library
  
  ‘Forgotten First:’ A look at four – and more – NFL trailblazers
  
  Boston’s new mayor marks historic ‘firsts’ leading city
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Governor: Texas gunman said he was going to ‘shoot up school’

The archbishop of San Antonio, Gustavo Garcia-Siller, comforts families outside the Civic Center following a deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.

The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas warned in online messages sent ...

VUU, VSU join public schools to retain Black and Latino male teachers

Richmond Public Schools’ RVA Men Teach program has partnered with Virginia Union and Virginia State universities to create a Teacher ...

Personality: The Rev. Shay W. Auerbach

From the doors of the church to the streets of Richmond and beyond, the Rev. Shay W. Auerbach has been ...

Buffalo supermarket victim Kat Massey, 72, laid to rest

This photo dated Oct. 24, 2011, shows Katherine Massey walking near the corner of Elmwood and Tupper in Buffalo, N.Y. Ms. Massey was one of the victims killed in the grocery store shooting in Buffalo on May 14.

In the late 1980s, Katherine “Kat” Massey was tired of the perpetually overgrown lot on state property on her street, ...

A salute to Richmond’s notable basketball stars

Bobby Dandridge

Robert L. “Bobby” Dandridge, aka “Greyhound,” “Bismarck,” and “Pick,” was born in Richmond on Nov. 15, 1947. He became a ...

2 artistic directors join Virginia Repertory Theatre

Todd D. Norris and Rick Hammerly will join Desirée Roots, a Richmond-based jazz singer and actress, as artistic directors for ...

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