"No one should have to live this way." - Delegate Mike Jones The fact that masked agents of the state are operating outside the rule of law, without accountability, shouldn’t be a conversation we’re having in America, let alone Virginia in 2025. Yet here we are,...
This report was commissioned by Northam's alma mater, not the state of Virginia, and we shouldn't be surprised when it serves its client's aims, writes Rich Meagher. Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Ralph Northam’s alma mater, was not able to figure out if Governor Ralph Northam wore blackface in an old yearbook photo. That’s the...
The Virginia Energy Reform Coalition has brought together groups of various political affiliations to push for free-market alternatives to Dominion. With the current divisions between political ideologies in America, the advent of a group like the Virginia Energy Reform Coalition (VERC) can be like a breath of fresh air. VERC is composed of...
Vandals spray-painted 19 swastikas on the walls of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia last October. A young woman leaving a mosque with her friends in Sterling, Virginia, after nightly prayers in the summer of 2017 was raped and killed. Someone scrawled “F*** God & Allah” across a Farmville mosque in October 2017. Later that...
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...
