As we close out the year, here’s a look at some of the most impactful stories we published in 2025. Over the past year, we covered Richmond as a living system under pressure, focusing on the people, culture, and policies that shape daily life and determine who gets...
Coates, author of new novel The Water Dancer, came to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture to discuss the legacies of emancipation. Author and Maryland native Ta-Nehisi Coates visited Richmond last week to discuss emancipation and to promote his New York Times bestseller, The Water Dancer. The book is set in Virginia, but his work isn’t the...
Your vote should count, even if you have to mail it in. Don't be late! Virginia voters have already returned more absentee ballots in 2019 than in the November 2015 election -- the last time all 140 seats in the General Assembly were up for reelection. In the last few elections there has been an uptick in absentee ballots, but not all returned...
In William Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, MS, the killing of a black woman in her own home by a white police officer shows that, as Faulkner once wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." An African-American woman named Dominique Clayton was killed in her Oxford, Mississippi home on Sunday, May 19. She was shot early that morning, in...
The seventh 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. Shockoe Bottom: The vacant storefronts scattered throughout and the empty parking lots that encompass entire city blocks...
Data from Virginia Public Access Project shows that, in terms of donations, Democratic women running for General Assembly seats in November are on top. With less than two weeks until the election, campaign finance reports show that not only are Democrats bringing in the most money, but Democratic women are leading the pack with donations...
[WARNING: I will be using the term "R-Words" throughout this article because I have no idea what's right anymore] "Just a cup of coffee, please," Robert Griffin III told the waitress behind the bar. He eased his broken body onto the bar stool at the Washington D.C. breakfast diner, but he wasn't hungry. [WARNING: I will be using the term...
On Columbus Day, the statue, located on Arthur Ashe Boulevard near Byrd Park, drew protests from a homeschool co-op and a local Cherokee tribe. Dozens of people gathered around the Christopher Columbus statue near Byrd Park this Monday in protest of Columbus Day and colonization. The “Defy the Lie” protest was organized by Cultural Roots...
The Virginia Women's Monument, unveiled this week on Capitol Square, is a much-needed step toward acknowledging the many important roles women played in the Commonwealth's history. “No pedestals, no horses, and no weapons.” This was a sentiment of the University of Richmond women’s studies focus group that was consulted on the design of the...
52 years after Loving v. Virginia, the Commonwealth was still requiring couples to state their race when seeking a marriage license. That's why three Virginia couples filed suit against the state government. Last month, Brandyn Churchill and Sophie Rogers, a Lexington couple planning to marry later this month, joined with two other Virginia...
