VIRGINIA POLITICS

Unpacking VCU’s Decision to Reject Racial Literacy in Curriculum

by Kate Seltzer | JUSTICE, RICHMOND POLITICS, VIRGINIA POLITICS

A proposed racial literacy requirement as part of VCU’s general education curriculum will not be implemented. In a 10-5 decision, the VCU Board of Visitors voted Friday to strike down the requirement, against the recommendations of the University Undergraduate...

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Black Children More Likely To Live In ‘Concentrated Poverty’

Nearly 100,000 Virginia children live in high-poverty neighborhoods; that figure includes 15 percent of Virginia's African American children, but only 2 percent of the commonwealth's white children. African American children are more than seven times as likely as...

Snap Out of It: Political Ads Appearing on Snapchat

In the run-up to today's election, political candidates are trying all sorts of novel ways to reach young voters -- including, yes, ads on Snapchat. A candidate for sheriff in a rural Virginia county is trying to reach younger voters by advertising on a social media...

Beer Distributors Pour Donations Into General Assembly Races

The Virginia Beer Wholesalers Association, which distributes many of Richmond's favorite craft brews, is also the seventh-largest political donor in the state this year; a slight majority of its donations go to Republicans. On a chilly fall night in the Scott’s...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Remains Determined To Cut Payday Loan Protections

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau insists that individual states, not the federal government, should regulate payday loans. But here in Virginia, payday loans are very weakly regulated, with no upper limit on interest rates. The Consumer Financial Protection...

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Deconstructs Power: ‘The South Won the War of Aesthetics’

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...

2018 Report Found Nearly 7,000 Absentee Ballots Mailed Too Late

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...

Seeking Justice For Dominique Clayton

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...

GRTC Connects: Route 4 – Shockoe Bottom to Fulton

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...

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