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United States
Journalist (Print & Online)
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"I'm the last Dragon." Ashley Singleton is many things - a Richmond resident with deep family ties to Church Hill and an educator with the nonprofit Blue Sky Fund. But what she felt and expressed last Saturday...
Natarsha Eppes-Kelly has been working hard for the last four months to establish a new normal in her life. A Dinwiddie resident and former mortgage specialist who now works as a beauty and skin care entrepreneur, Ms. Eppes-Kelly contracted COVID-19 in late August.
Concerned residents have rallied to restore, record and maintain the history of the many laid to rest. See photos. RICHMOND, Va. - On a hot Saturday in April, volunteers work under a bright sun and the noise of buzzing insects to find and remove unchecked nature and neglect from the graves of thousands of African-Americans, from everyday citizens to some of the most important leaders in local, state and national history.
For Tatanisha Rodriguez, the experience of going to a food bank for help for the first time, just a week shy of Christmas, produced a multitude of emotions and reactions.
The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority has frozen all evictions for the rest of the year, following months of growing scrutiny and backlash from residents and housing advocates over the organization's actions and priorities.
In the coming weeks, Virginia's environmental and political future is set to see a potential shift. The past weeks were marked by upsets, confrontations, and accusations of corruption surrounding the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines, and as a crucial vote approaches, the future is decidedly uncertain.
Another clash over Virginia's dark past is brewing in the digital sphere. Encyclopedia Virginia's entry on the United Daughters of the Confederacy has drawn criticism from the group for explicitly noting their efforts to preserve white supremacy.
By Irena Schunn and George Copeland Jr. Capital News Service RICHMOND - Chanting "enough is enough" and "never again," more than 5,000 students and other demonstrators marched through Richmond on Saturday as part of a nationwide protest against mass shootings and gun violence.
David Smith doesn't cut the figure of a man who's been to prison, let alone one who spent more than a year in solitary confinement. Dressed in a button-up white shirt, with tan khakis and a blue blazer, the impression Smith gives is more of a white collar worker.
Dr. Grace E. Harris, the highest-ranking African-American and highest-ranking woman in the history of Virginia Commonwealth University, died Monday at age 84, leaving a legacy that stretches throughout and beyond the state of Virginia.