“It's time for America to get right.” - Fannie Lou Hamer The civil rights legend Fannie Lou Hamer would be 100 years old today. While other civil rights leaders of the 20th century - like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.- might have been the face of the movement,...
Judge Rules in Favor of Groups Seeking to Preserve Confederate Monuments
The debate over removing Confederate statues hit a potential roadblock yesterday. A circuit-court judge in Charlottesville handed down a ruling signaling that the Commonwealth's laws protecting war memorials could be retroactively applied to Virginia's Confederate...
Sunday Stroll: The Weird and Wild World of the Virginia State Fair
RVA Mag covered a lot of tough subjects and put a lot of perspective into the collective atmosphere this week. While our arts, music, and cultural reporting by Angela Huckstep, Malik Hall, and Christoper McDaniel brought to bear the more prepossessing side of life,...
Opinion: Debating Free Speech in Virginia
The violent clashes in Charlottesville on August 12 turned the spotlight on freedom of speech across the nation, with many asking just how much hate speech is covered under the first amendment. And just over a week ago, Richmond experienced a neo-Confederate rally on...
Opinion: Republican Candidate Ed Gillespie’s New Campaign Ad is Classic Racist Fear-Mongering
Last week brought us the worst political ad in Virginia and it wasn’t Dan Helmer. Apologies to RVAMag’s Political Director. He’s totally right about all the ways Dan Helmer’s ad was a bad idea, it’s just that this ad is even worse. We now have the Republican candidate...
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