It’s hard to believe hip-hop was once the red-headed stepchild of jazz and soul. Purists complained the genre was a crude regurgitation of its predecessors over a break beat, but 50 years later, a once misunderstood genre is now Big Brother—omnipresent in virtually...
Ron Dillard Jr. does it all. He writes his own plays and screenplays. He has television shows in his head ready to go out into the world. A storyteller has to have stories to tell, and Ron is ready to tell his. Finding his way through the business of filmmaking and...
The fourth annual Richmond Black Restaurant Experience shows that in a city gaining a reputation as a food destination, black restaurants and black culture are an essential factor. As the first week of March approaches, black restaurant owners and cooks all over...
“People in Richmond don’t talk to each other,” said Kelli Lemon, owner of Urban Hang Suite. She created her coffee shop last year to make a comfortable space for customers to connect with one another despite their differences. Lemon is also tri-owner of the Virginia...
From body snatchers to windowless basement clinics, the history of African-American health care in Virginia is an ugly one. And as The Valentine's Controversy/History series revealed last week, some of those problems are still all-too-prevalent today. Beliefs based in...