Renee Nicole Good, a graduate of Old Dominion University, was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a federal enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The shooting has drawn national attention as questions continue to...
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 Addition neighborhood of Richmond, just ahead of the statewide Virginia election,...
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 Bureau has not budged on its June decision cutting additional protections. “There...
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 bestseller, The Water Dancer. The book is set in Virginia, but his work isn’t the...
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 elections there has been an uptick in absentee ballots, but not all returned...
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 Oxford, Mississippi home on Sunday, May 19. She was shot early that morning, in...
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 scattered throughout and the empty parking lots that encompass entire city blocks...
Data from Virginia Public Access Project shows that, in terms of donations, Democratic women running for General Assembly seats in November are on top. With less than two weeks until the election, campaign finance reports show that not only are Democrats bringing in the most money, but Democratic women are leading the pack with donations...
[WARNING: I will be using the term "R-Words" throughout this article because I have no idea what's right anymore] "Just a cup of coffee, please," Robert Griffin III told the waitress behind the bar. He eased his broken body onto the bar stool at the Washington D.C. breakfast diner, but he wasn't hungry. [WARNING: I will be using the term...
On Columbus Day, the statue, located on Arthur Ashe Boulevard near Byrd Park, drew protests from a homeschool co-op and a local Cherokee tribe. Dozens of people gathered around the Christopher Columbus statue near Byrd Park this Monday in protest of Columbus Day and colonization. The “Defy the Lie” protest was organized by Cultural Roots...
