New mural in Carytown at 3101 W. Cary Street, designed by Shepard Fairey for the People For the American Way Foundation. Painted by Brian Tull and Silly Genius. Photos by Landon Shroder Support RVA Magazine. Support Independent Media in Richmond. At a time when media...
Virginia has become the first state to ensure that patients will be the ones to see benefit from prescription drug coupons -- not their insurance companies. Last month, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed two bills that will require health insurers to count drug and medicine coupons toward a patient’s deductible. This bill, which will take...
About 7,000 women in Virginia are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Certain women — including African Americans and rural residents — are more likely than others to die from the disease. “Oh my God, I’m going to die.” On March 19, 2018, Margrietta Nickens was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. Over the next five months,...
One year after the death of Marcus-David Peters, Chelsea Higgs Wise says that if Richmond wants to talk about equity in matters involving the budget, the city must also talk about equity in matters of law enforcement. It's been one year since Marcus-David Peters became the first Richmonder turned into a hashtag after he was shot to death by a...
For black women, childbirth can be a death sentence. African American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. Last fall, Tanaca McCargo, a Chesterfield native, found out she was expecting her second child. McCargo, who already had a 3-year-old boy, discovered early on that her second...
The Dutch city of canals and coffee shops offers plenty of cheese, fries, and other assorted edibles (yeah, you know what we mean). RVA Global correspondent Chloe Fortin brings us an in-depth report. Typically, when you tell people that you’re going to Amsterdam, they smile and give you a wink. Because let’s be honest -- the first two things that...
The Mattaponi Indian tribe has inhabited this area since long before Europeans arrived. Thanks to a 17th century treaty, the Mattaponi even have a reservation — one of two tribes with that distinction in Virginia. But there’s one thing the Mattaponi tribe still doesn’t have: recognition from the federal government. WEST POINT, Va. — Along...
The first thing Abbie Arevalo Herrera is going to do when she eventually leaves sanctuary is thank God. “He’s the one who’s allowed me to have this experience, and I feel like I’m learning a lot, things I never imagined,” Arevalo Herrera said in Spanish. And then, she said with a pause, she’s going to the beach with her children. She finished the...
Last week, Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras met with community members for an open discussion on plans to improve Richmond Public Schools. Kamras called the discussion a "Trust Town Hall," announcing the event in an April 13 op-ed for the Richmond Times Dispatch. In the op-ed, Kamras wrote that the main issue he heard...
Here's the next installment of 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 find the ways GRTC connects us all. Bellevue: Bellevue positively radiates springtime cheer. Manicured lawns brimming with perky daffodils and blossoming...
