Republicans flip seven House seats, winning chamber control
The red tide on Election Night washed away Democratic control of the House of Delegates after a brief two years of progressive reform.
Miyares claims victory as first Latino attorney general in state
In a close race, Republican Delegate Jason S. Miyares has ended Democrat Mark R. Herring’s eight-year tenure as Virginia’s attorney general, completing the GOP sweep of the top offices in the Commonwealth for the first time since 2009.
Casino referendum fails in close no vote
The people have spoken: Richmond will not become a gambling mecca.
Sears makes history with election as lieutenant governor
Republican Winsome E. Sears will play a critically important role in the next four years as Virginia’s lieutenant governor.
Game of the season
VUU Panthers take on VSU Trojans Saturday in long-standing rivalry
Virginia Union and Virginia State universities open every season with the top goal of winning the CIAA championship. When that becomes unavailable, beating each other emerges as the next best thing.
Catholic group pushes expedited sainthood for 6 African-Americans
BALTIMORE The process of recognizing saints in Catholicism is so arduous that it can take generations, even centuries, to complete, but even the usually slow-moving Catholic church can accelerate matters when it wants to. In the cases of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Pope John Paul II, for example, church officials waived a five-year waiting period after their deaths to get the process started. Now a group of Baltimore Catholics says it’s time to expedite the cases of six other heroes of the faith. Parishioners of St. Ann’s Catholic Church, a predominantly African-American congregation in the East Baltimore Midway neighborhood, and the two other churches in its pastorate, Historic St. Francis Xavier and St. Wenceslaus, seek to make the case that the church should immediately canonize six Black American Catholics. The candidates include Mother Mary Lange, a Baltimore nun who started and ran a school for Black children during the era of slavery.
Former Gov. A. Linwood Holton, a Republican whose actions helped break down racial barriers in the state, succumbs at 98
When a federal court in 1970 ordered Richmond students to be bused to integrate public schools, new Virginia Gov. A. Linwood “Lin” Holton Jr. showed his sup- port by enrolling his four children and having them attend majority- Black schools.
Personality: Sheila E. Battle
Spotlight on board president of The Innerwork Center
At a time of reassessment for individuals, systems in Richmond and the world at large, Sheila E. Battle is at the forefront of a group fostering change through a unique method – inner work.
City Council Oks plan for $155M in federal American Rescue Plan funds
Richmond is preparing to pour $64 million into the develop- ment of new and improved community recreation centers in the East End, South Side and Gilpin Court.
‘Preserve a woman’s right to choose’
Life is full of choices. From the decision to follow a particular faith to the adoption of a distinct world view, our civil liberties have been exercised since the conception of this nation. And with the new Texas abortion law that went into effect Sept. 1, our freedom to choose has been stripped away from us.
Richmond casino ‘will exploit Black families’
In our lives, it is rare to live, much less participate in, a watershed moment. But the Richmond casino referendum may be such a moment.
Black turnout is key in high-stakes Va. election, by Keauna Gregory and Alexsis Rodgers
As Virginia’s statewide general election approaches on Tuesday, Nov. 2, let’s re- member what happens when Black people get to the polls and vote.
Chesapeake elementary schoolteacher named Virginia Teacher of the Year
Daphne Tamara Fulson, a second-grade teacher from Port- lock Primary School in Chesapeake, has been named the 2022 Virginia Teacher of the Year.
Panel on the Civil War and the African-American perspective Nov. 4
How can the history of the Civil War be taught without treating the Black experience as an “add on”?
RVA Black Farmers Market Oct. 31 at VUU
Virginia Union University will host its first farmers’ market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, at Hovey Stadium.
Grand opening of Sankofa Community Garden slated for Oct. 29
A 2-acre park that includes 80 fruit trees will officially open to the public at noon Friday, Oct. 29, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, it has been announced.
World Series gets underway with the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros
Yordan Alvarez and Eddie Rosario celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month a little late by leading their teams to the World Series.
Big 10 football rivalry creates George Jewett Trophy
George Jewett broke the Big 10 color barrier away back in the ’90s—the 1890s, that is.
