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...
by RVA Staff | Jan 27, 2021 | OPINION
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...
by RVA Staff | Jan 21, 2021 | OPINION
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....
by Rachel Scott Everett | Jan 17, 2021 | OPINION
[Editor’s note: This essay by contributing writer Rachel Scott Everett was originally published on her Medium site back on Election Day in November; it was written with no idea what was to come in the days that followed. However, in light of the earthshaking...
