Editor’s Note: This article is based on reporting by Julianna Brown of Capital News Service, a student-powered newsroom at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Robertson School of Communication. RVA Magazine has edited and expanded the reporting for our audience. For...
Over this past weekend, three nights in a row saw massive protests erupt in the streets of Richmond. RVA Mag captured images of the scenes throughout the weekend. With outrage continuing to mount over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, as well as an ongoing epidemic of violence by police and private citizens toward black Americans...
A social media post recently revealed that Richmond City Council representative Reva Trammell has a Jim Crow-era caricature displayed in her kitchen, a fact that's put her in hot water with some constituents. Richmond City Council member Reva Trammell has represented the city’s majority-African American 8th district since 1998. In her role on...
Despite a total absence of evidence, Fort Belvoir-based US Army reservist Maatje Benassi has become the focus of a bizarre YouTube conspiracy theory about the origins of the novel coronavirus. US Army Reservist Maatje Benassi has become the center of a wild coronavirus conspiracy theory that has left her private information public, and her family...
Hazard pay, face mask requirements, and bus drivers testing positive for COVID-19 are issues that came to the fore after a labor action by GRTC bus drivers in April. The last week of April was a busy week for the GRTC. On Monday April 27, 40 GRTC workers called out sick and refused to come into work, according to a tweet from GRTC CEO Julie Timm....
The Commonwealth has not met the guidelines for daily decreases in the number of new COVID-19 cases; nonetheless, the opening phase of Governor Northam's plan to reopen Virginia is set to launch next week. The novel coronavirus has burdened communities with stay-at-home orders for over a month, resulting in businesses closing and millions filing...
Last month, the DC-based World Affairs Councils of America spoke to Libyan political official Mohammed Ali Abdallah about the country's struggle with coronavirus amid a brutal civil war. Residents of Tripoli, Libya’s capital, are living in the middle of a civil war during a global pandemic. The World Affairs Councils of America, a Washington,...
The delay will push the first statewide minimum wage increase back by four months, to May 2021; some lawmakers view this delay as the lesser of two evils. Labor advocates and Virginia legislators worried the recently passed bill to increase minimum wage might die during the reconvened General Assembly session Wednesday. Gov. Ralph Northam’s...
The General Assembly held sessions outside last week, considering questions of minimum wage and election dates on the Capitol lawn as quarantine protesters raised a ruckus. The General Assembly’s reconvened session Wednesday was abnormal as the House dealt with technical difficulties, disruptive protests, and House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn,...
As the General Assembly reconvened for an outdoor session, protesters demanding that Virginia end its quarantine converged upon Capitol Square, honking horns and waving signs. Horns blared and flags waved from vehicle windows as hundreds of Virginians converged Wednesday on Capitol Square to protest restrictions implemented by Gov. Ralph Northam...
