by Ellen Robertson and Thomas Okuda Fitzpatrick | Apr 21, 2025 | COMMUNITY, JUSTICE, LETTER TO THE EDITOR, RICHMOND POLITICS
“I never would have thought that I would be the minority in my neighborhood,” said Sandra Bowman, a Black resident of Richmond’s East End. She told an interviewer last year that the recent arrival of white neighbors has led to changes. That shift has also...
by Sarah Roberson | Apr 21, 2025 | LETTER TO THE EDITOR, MUSIC, QUEER RVA
ed. note: Below is a response to Rich Tarbell’s recent review of St. Vincent’s Ting Pavilion performance, written by fellow concertgoer Sarah F. Roberson. Her personal take offers additional insight into the themes of power, gender, and the dynamic between artist and...
by R. Anthony Harris | Apr 14, 2025 | COMMUNITY, OPINION & EDITORIAL, POLITICS
Oh, clean water. The thing you’ve been drinking since birth, something you take for granted—unless, of course, you live in a city like Richmond, where even something as basic as that can be too much to ask for at times. The federal government just made even that a...
by R. Anthony Harris | Mar 31, 2025 | COMMUNITY, JUSTICE, OPINION & EDITORIAL, POLITICS
Last week, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” calling for the review—and potential restoration—of monuments removed from public land since 2020. While the order doesn’t name specific cities, its...
by RVA Staff | Mar 12, 2025 | ART, COMMUNITY, JUSTICE, LETTER TO THE EDITOR, MUSEUM & GALLERY NEWS
Merenda Cecelia, a Richmond-based artist and instructor, was recently dismissed from her teaching position at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) after reading a statement aloud in class. She describes the statement as a personal expression of artistic and...
by R. Anthony Harris | Mar 12, 2025 | COMMUNITY, CULTURE, JUSTICE, MUSIC, OPINION
Music has always been a mirror. It tells us who we are, what we value, and, sometimes, what we’re too afraid to face. But if music is supposed to reflect the world around us, then what does it say that so much of today’s mainstream music says… nothing at all? Richmond...
