by Ash Griffith | Jul 10, 2018 | OPINION
I could just barely reach our countertop when my father started teaching me how to cook. Chef celebrity culture quickly became a thing in the late 90s, and my father used it to his advantage to teach me how to cook what we saw on our television. We started working on...
by Cassie Jacobs | Jun 29, 2018 | OPINION
A week ago I wrote an opinion piece for this publication titled, “How To Kill the Democratic Party of Virginia” after attending the Blue Commonwealth Gala in Richmond on June 16. I had no idea that this opinion piece would create as many arguments and as...
by Sarafina Sackey | Jun 27, 2018 | OPINION
Dear Becky, You’re the owner of Caddy’s Restaurant on Midlothian Turnpike. And you just posted this absurdly racist comment directed toward black Congresswoman Maxine Waters. “Maxine Waters, shut your your big fat lips, no one wants to hear your rasium [sic]...
by Saffeya Ahmed | Jun 21, 2018 | OPINION
Today’s print edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch features an editorial cartoon mocking the separation of families at the southern border, and I am utterly outraged. Unless you think the forced separation of children from their parents is somehow acceptable,...
by Cassie Jacobs | Jun 20, 2018 | OPINION
This past Saturday, I attended the Blue Commonwealth Gala in Richmond, the Democratic Party of Virginia’s (DPVA) signature annual event. As I sat there for three hours I couldn’t help but think that this was the way to kill the Democratic Party. Speeches for three...
by Saffeya Ahmed | Jun 19, 2018 | OPINION
I have not known a time the US lost all sense of compassion before today. And now we are living in one of the worst episodes of our recent history. How can anyone look at pictures of young children being torn from their parents, left to live in cages and not feel...
