Neglected for decades, historic African-American cemeteries in Virginia are the focus of renewed restoration efforts, both on the state and federal levels. “Fifteen-hundred tires, and counting,” said Brian Palmer, referring to the illegally dumped trash in Richmond’s...
Maggie L. Walker, the first female bank president of any race to charter a bank in the United States, is getting her long-deserved recognition with her very own statue in Richmond. An unveiling ceremony and celebration for the highly debated monument will occur on...
The famed bank owner and Richmond citizen Maggie Walker is set to be immortalized along Broad Street at a grand unveiling next month, but the road to now was once fraught with surprising controversy. “This effort has been nearly 20 years in the making and it is an...