by RVA Staff | Jul 7, 2021 | OPINION
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...
by Ben Blevins | Jun 14, 2021 | EAT DRINK, LETTER TO THE EDITOR, OPINION, POLITICS
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...
by David Dominique | Apr 19, 2021 | OPINION
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...
by RVA Staff | Apr 15, 2021 | OPINION
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...
by RVA Staff | Mar 26, 2021 | OPINION
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...
by RVA Staff | Feb 17, 2021 | OPINION
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...
