New mural in Carytown at 3101 W. Cary Street, designed by Shepard Fairey for the People For the American Way Foundation. Painted by Brian Tull and Silly Genius. Photos by Landon Shroder Support RVA Magazine. Support Independent Media in Richmond. At a time when media...
What should have been a birthday celebration with family last Sunday soon turned into a harrowing encounter between a Chesterfield family and the Richmond Police Department (RPD) and has raised questions about how police apply force against people with special needs. On the evening of May 6, as the RPD was responding to reports of a hit-and-run,...
Outside the offices of Dominion’s annual shareholder meeting, protesters gathered on the corner of the opposing street, chanting in opposition to the pipelines tearing through people’s homes and livelihood in the western part of the Commonwealth. “Our fields, our forests, our rivers, no pipeline!” they chant, the group huddles tight on the corner...
RICHMOND – Robin Foster had worked with abused and neglected children for years, but it wasn’t until she came face to face with a trafficking victim that she fully recognized the dimensions of the crisis that brought a 17-year-old to a hospital emergency room early one morning. The teen came to the hospital complaining of a sore throat but ran...
RICHMOND – 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. The neighboring Evergreen and East End...
Encounters over in Missed Connections are finally starting to spice back up again since it's been moved to a different section. This week, a Redskins fan admires a woman's peacock tattoo at Wolfgang's Gym, a biker attempts to show off for a fellow driver by popping a wheelie, sparks continue to fly at The Hofgarden as well as REI, and two...
At least 70 supporters gathered around the Robert E. Lee monument on Saturday for an anti-racism rally organized by the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice, & Equality and the Richmond chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Clergy and community activists spoke about the Monument Avenue Commission, the Civil War, and the impact...
With racial tensions and incidents of racism at a nationwide high, Richmond anti-racist activists are preparing to counter a neo-Confederate rally this Saturday at the Robert E. Lee Monument with a competing event they've titled "Rally Against Racism-The Meaning Behind The Monuments." On Facebook, the two main organizers, the Virginia Defenders...
A few weeks ago, I joined my fellow representatives of the Tuckahoe Middle School Student Council at the Virginia Student Council Association convention in Virginia Beach and it completely changed my thinking about the world around me. The convention was based around the theme "lighting the fire of leadership", and at it, four to five hundred...
Love is finally in the air this spring over in Missed Connections. This week, we have a special encounter at Babe's, The HofGarden, a Harlem native searches for his former lover in RVA, and a man hopes to hear from a woman snapping photos in Maymont's Japanese Gardens. All that and more below. Purple hair blk female works at little...
