In a time of nation wide protests against racist police violence, RVA Magazine Managing Partner Landon Shroder urges white people to do the work, support Black protesters, and follow their lead in standing against a system of white supremacy. When I worked in Iraq, I...
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...
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...
The demand for justice in the killing of Marcus-David Peters moved from the streets to the council meeting room Monday night. After a march for justice and reformation for Peters on June 2, family and community members addressed city council to call for transparency...
Richmond Police Department (RPD) held a press conference this morning to release footage showing the officer-involved shooting of Marcus Peters on May 14 at 5:33 p.m. Peters, a VCU graduate and biology teacher at Essex High School in Tappahannock, was shot and killed...