Pharrell Williams says ‘toxic energy’ tanked 2nd ‘Something in the Water’ in Va. Beach
Hometown or no hometown, music superstar Pharrell Wil- liams is pulling his hugely successful “Something in the Water” music festival out of Virginia Beach.
Doubling down
Alfred C. Liggins III and Urban One go all in to win voter approval of the $565M casino project proposed for South Side. The referendum is Nov. 2, with early voting going on now.
Do you want a gambling casino built on a 100-acre commercial property in the South Side?
Cold meals another hot topic at School Board meeting; new vendor sought
Most students in Richmond elementary schools started receiving hot meals on Monday, just hours before the Richmond School Board met and voted unanimously to rescind the $12.9 million food contract awarded during the summer to Illinois-based Preferred Meals to provide breakfast and lunch.
Families plead for more information on missing loved ones
Richmonder Toni Jacobs wishes that her missing daughter could have gained the kind of national and social media exposure that the family of 22-year-old blonde Gabby Petito experienced.
Explanation, please
Please explain to me why swarms of Haitian refugees from the first Black republic in the Western Hemisphere are choking the border of the United States trying to get into this incorrigibly racist, white supremacist country?
The brotherhood of male bullying
Now that 11 people have been indicted and arrested recently in connection with the hazing death of Virginia Commonwealth University student Adam Oakes, universities have to become more involved to establish bylaws that would abandon fraternity hazing and dismantle its humiliating and restraining tyrannical unmanning posturing.
Another lost cause loser
The self-declared “very stable genius” and former social media influencer Donald Trump loves slavery and the lost cause of Robert E. Lee’s defeated Confederacy so much, he just can’t keep his ignorant mouth shut.
‘I don’t like where things are headed’ with U.S. Supreme Court
Former President Trump added three conservative justices to the U.S. Supreme Court during his tenure in office.
Learning Black history to build upon it, by A. Peter Bailey
One of the main reasons for knowing Black history is so important.
Flexibility for whom?, by Julianne Malveaux
I had not planned to have a policy conversation when I boarded my connecting flight from Detroit to D.C.
Playing politics
Another U.S. government shutdown is imminent this week if Senate Republicans don’t end their blockade of an agree- ment to fund government operations beyond the last day of the federal fiscal year on Sept. 30.
Metropolitan Opera makes history with first work by a Black composer
“We bend, we don’t break. We sway!” sings the chorus in the second act of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.”
Hopewell’s TreVeyon Henderson sets freshman rushing record
TreVeyon Henderson hardly broke stride in moving from Hopewell High School to football’s national spotlight at Ohio State University.
K’Vaughan Pope gets the boot from Ohio State
Former Dinwiddie High School football standout K’Vaughan Pope has been dismissed from the team at Ohio State University.
VSU hopes bad news will fall to good in Saturday’s match against St. Aug’s
Bad and good news are sprinkled together for Virginia State University’s beleaguered football team.
VUU on a roll; taking on Shaw this Saturday
Virginia Union University football has gone from famine to feast—and the Panthers are hungry for more.
Melvin Van Peebles, ‘godfather’ of modern Black cinema, dies at 89
Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking filmmaker, playwright and musician whose work ushered in the “blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s and influenced filmmakers long after, has died. He was 89.
Singer Sarah Dash, co-founder of Labelle, dies at 76
Singer Sarah Dash, who co-founded the all-female group Labelle—best known for the rau- cous 1974 hit “Lady Marmalade”—has died. She was 76.
David N. Smith, former banking executive and state official, dies at 66
David Nathaniel Smith wanted to be a journal- ist but found his road to success in commercial sales and banking.
Teen gun ban remains intact
A federal ban on gun sales to young people who are old enough to vote but have not reached the drinking age of 21 is still the law—for now.
