Editor's Note: A nationwide protest known as the Free America Walkout is scheduled for Tuesday, January 20, including a demonstration in downtown Richmond at Kanawha Plaza. More information is available at freeameri.ca. We’re barely three weeks into 2026,...
This may be the #MeToo era, but here in Virginia, the vast majority of rape cases are still unsolved, and the perpetrators remain unpunished. In the #MeToo era, survivors of sexual assault are feeling more empowered to come forward with their stories. Despite the social movement, though, sexual assaults and rapes have the lowest clearance rates...
2018 saw the highest number of pedestrian deaths on Virginia roads in ten years. Two major Richmond-area roads were among the deadliest in the state. On a Friday night in October, Katelyn Tilts was walking to a convenience store with a group of friends when she saw headlights coming at her. “A car came around the corner really quickly and was...
Richmond's First District City Councilman, Andreas Addison, spent all of November commuting throughout the city by foot and bus. What he learned has fueled a slate of new, pedestrian-friendly ordinances he wants City Council to pass. If there’s one thing 1st District Councilman Andreas Addison noticed during his one month without a car, it’s that...
The requirement that Medicaid recipients work was a Republican condition of the program's expansion. But with the new Democrat-controlled General Assembly soon to be seated, Governor Northam no longer plans to enforce it. Virginia residents with Medicaid will not be required to work in order to keep their policies since Gov. Ralph Northam halted...
As we approach the start of the 2020 General Assembly session, here's an up-to-date look into an ongoing fight over guns that has the whole Commonwealth concerned. It has been a truly tumultuous month since Virginia’s November elections. Specifically, the conversation around the Second Amendment, gun ownership and potential gun control...
Last Friday saw Central Virginia students missing school to demand action on climate change in ongoing Global Climate Strike actions in Richmond. Dozens of Richmond area students skipped class Friday to demand government action on climate change. Part of the larger Youth Global Climate Strike, the actions included a march that briefly shut down...
Last week, longtime journalist Bob Levey shared a lifetime of expertise with VCU journalism students, urging them to focus on strong journalism and to remember that cries of "fake news" from those in the spotlight are nothing new. Washington Post journalist, former columnist, and author Bob Levey said that attacks on the press - such as the U.S....
In their latest exhibit, The Valentine puts a new spin on the fight to gain women the right to vote by imagining it as a social media battle between famous figures of the early 20th century. If you’ve ever wondered what Maggie L. Walker’s social media presence would look like if virtual communication had existed during the suffrage movement of...
More Americans are working from home, and that’s especially true in Virginia and in the Washington, D.C., metro area, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationally, the proportion of workers who work from home rose from 4.3 percent in 2010 to 5.3 percent last year, the data show. Virginia is slightly above the national average,...
