Walk through just about any neighborhood in Richmond and you’ll see them. The small blue-lit doorbells tucked into brick row houses in Church Hill. The newer setups in Manchester townhomes and Scott’s Addition apartments. For a lot of us, buying a Ring camera was...
Is there something wrong with the fact that parking lots downtown sit empty as residents circle blocks for 20 minutes looking for somewhere to put their cars? Brock Hall thinks so, and he has a theory about how this problem could be solved here in Richmond. My stepdad was visiting Richmond recently and he invited me out to lunch. Not being...
In the late summer of 2015, Dyett High School in Chicago, Illinois still had its doors closed. Chicago Public Schools closed Dyett after years of low standardized test scores. With Dyett closed, students from this district in Chicago were to be bussed across town to another school, furthering the issue of overcrowding and removing students...
For Highland Support Project’s Ben Blevins, the United States’ goals for international relations should begin with decolonizing. And he can explain… starting with potatoes. When I was a child growing up in Richmond’s West End, I had the luck of living next door to the world’s best maker of potato...
David Dominique writes that the language national newspapers use to describe Black celebrities at the time of their death, far from being trivial, is fueled by the same anti-Blackness we see in the all-too-frequent police killings of Black men. Last week, after the untimely death of DMX at age 50, outpourings of grief and memorials from his...
Richard Walker, candidate for the 71st District of Virginia’s House of Delegates, writes that Virginia “needs more than incremental change influenced by monopoly utilities and corporate interests.” Virginia must be a Commonwealth built on the rights of all people to clean air and water, economic stability, transparency in...
Sunrise Richmond co-coordinator Fionnuala Fisk warns that a Wegmans facility in Hanover County threatens the historic Black community of Brown Grove. Scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines racism as the “state-sanctioned and extralegal exposure of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death,” and environmental racism plays a big...
For Black History Month and beyond, Andrew Crider and Preston Page write, the aviation industry in Virginia and across the nation should uplift marginalized communities and work harder to diversify aviation. Black History Month is not for purely symbolic gestures and meaningless apologies. We need to truly uplift people. Uplifting requires a...
Former Education Compact member Amy Wentz respond’s to last week’s editorial by Willie Hilliard, offering reasons why she believes Richmond Public Schools should renew Superintendent Jason Kamras’s contract for four years. Well, well, well. Here we are again, Richmond Public Schools stakeholders: emotional, anxious, and...
City Council candidate and Mayor’s Education Compact member Willie Hilliard says Richmond’s School Board should offer a two-year contract for continuity amidst the pandemic, but should not commit to the four-year contract Superintendent Jason Kamras wants. RPS students deserve an excellent education, and building a welcoming,...
