Join us for Salon de Résistance on January 29th at Black Iris for a conversation about the national crisis with three of Virginia's Congressional candidates. Welcome back to Salon de Résistance. We’ve not had a slow start to 2026. There’s been no grace...
Lawmakers are divided on timelines, and the extent to which Virginia should move toward outright legalization, but one thing seems clear: marijuana reform is on the agenda at the General Assembly. With Democrats controlling both chambers of the General Assembly and the governor's office for the first time in over 25 years, lawmakers have...
The tenth installment in a monthly series in which a hometown Richmonder who has spent over a decade abroad explores the many different neighborhoods accessible by GRTC bus lines to discover the ways transit connects us all. Jackson Ward: From the wrought iron railings to the red brick rowhouses’ done up in the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Late...
Virginia onAir is working to ensure that young voters in the Commonwealth are able to stay informed about this year's important election cycle. The new decade is starting off with an election year, and many college students will become first-time voters in November. Amid a climate of divisiveness, tribalism, fact-free dialogue, and ad hominem...
The Capitol Square gun rally Monday managed to avoid outbreaks of violence, but the abundant rhetoric still struck an ominous note for the Commonwealth. After all the talk, after all the hype, lobby day in Richmond on Monday came and went without any serious incidents from the around 22,000 overwhelmingly white protesters who assembled in Capitol...
Monday's gun rally wasn't violent, thankfully. But there was a lot to see at the Capitol that day nonetheless. Tens of thousands of people from throughout Virginia and all over the nation descended on the Capitol Building Monday for a massive pro-gun rally, and the big headline in the wake of the event was that, despite widespread fears that kept...
Freezing temperatures and even hail did nothing to prevent the 2020 Women's March from making a strong statement for women's rights in the nation's capital. Saturday, January 18th was the kind of cold that required three layers, two pairs of gloves, and three cups of coffee just to stay warm. Nonetheless, Washington, DC's Pennsylvania Avenue was...
Supporting alternative energy, lowering carbon emissions, and protecting Virginia's vulnerable communities were important issues to the crowd that gathered at the Capitol building. Hundreds of clean energy supporters trekked to the State Capitol last week demanding Virginia move away from reliance on carbon-based energy, invest in alternative...
Advocates may not agree about whether decriminalization or outright legalization is the correct path for Virginia marijuana legislation. But they're united in the belief that the state's current laws must change. Advocates dressed in black stood Wednesday at the base of the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial to voice their support of marijuana...
States requiring schools to teach sex education have lower teen pregnancy rates; some say high teen pregnancy rates in some Virginia localities are a direct result of the lack of a sex ed requirement in the Commonwealth's schools. In the early 2000s, Martinsville, a city of about 13,000 near the North Carolina line, had one of the highest teen...
