Richmond business attorney and activist Justin Griffin is running for mayor of Richmond. RVA Mag spoke to him about his goals and policies ahead of November's election. Justin Griffin is a small business attorney who originally hails from Nashville, but has fallen in...
Urgent Progressive Change: Speaking With Richmond Mayoral Candidate Alexsis Rodgers
RVA Magazine sits down with Alexsis Rodgers, a community activist and mayoral candidate for the City of Richmond, to learn more about her policies. On June 6, Alexsis Rodgers formally announced her candidacy for Richmond mayor. Rodgers, a VCU graduate, is currently...
Op-Ed: For the Love of All of Our Children
This past weekend, I attended a conference on the campus of Princeton University in New Jersey, and had to field numerous questions regarding whether Richmond is as racially oppressive as it is portrayed in the national media. I stood up for our city, and assured the...
In Unique and Destructive Weather, Richmond-Area Schools Work to Adapt
When Ashley Walton started her fifth year working at Highland Springs High School, at the semester’s start, she was in high spirits. She’d been impressed by the efforts of new principal Ken White to raise morale, and looked forward to interacting with an energized...
Post-Accreditation, Former and Current Teachers Assess the City’s State of Education
Richmond’s public schools are deep into the 2018-2019 semester, with midterm exams on the horizon for some, and the long shadow cast by the condition of the city’s education hanging over all. That condition, detailed in a report released on September 27 by the...
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