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Virginia House and Senate Advance Bills to Abolish Death Penalty

Governor Northam has voiced his support for abolishing the death penalty in Virginia, and now both houses of the General Assembly have voted in favor of abolishing it as well. After over 400 years of conducting more executions than any other state, Virginia may become...

Best Of VA Missed Connections February 3 – February 9

Welcome to another week of Missed Connections, where we all have our guilty pleasures. For some of us, it's all those "Karen freakout" compilations on YouTube; for others, it's running a post through a thesaurus before hitting submit, or quoting David Lee Roth lyrics....

Trump Political Appointee Sues Biden After Refusing to Resign

Roger Severino, the anti-LGBTQ right-wing Christian activist who made things difficult for LGBTQ Americans during his time running HHS's Office Of Civil Rights for Trump, is suing the Biden administration for firing him. Roger Severino, a former Trump appointee at the...

Amended Bill to Limit Solitary Confinement Heads to Senate Floor

David Smith remembers dancing to music in his head and having conversations with television shows during 16 months in solitary confinement at Norfolk City Jail.  “Your mind plays tricks on you,” Smith said. “There was a slow disconnect with reality. I didn’t...

The Hustle Season Podcast: Ep. 171 GET VAXXED PLAY SHOWS

RVA Magazine is proud to showcase The Hustle Season Podcast every weekend. Produced at La Cocina Studio in Richmond, VA; homegrown musicians Kelli Strawbridge, Reggie Pace, James Seretis (La Cocina’s engineer) & Gabriel Santamaria bring their irreverent, outspoken...

Virginia Senate Committee Rejects Hate Crime Expansion Bill

Sen. Ghazala Hashmi's bill to expand hate crimes to include crimes based on perception -- which would have had the effect of protecting gender expression, not covered under current hate crime statutes -- failed in the Virginia state Senate after backlash from both...

Lawmakers Advance Voting Rights Act of Virginia

Ongoing concerns over voter suppression, intimidation, and discrimination at the polls led Del. Cia Price to introduce a bill modeled on the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. This week, it was passed in the House of Delegates. On the first day of Black History Month,...

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