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VUU and VSU announce 2020-21 football schedules

CIAA football starts in September, but Virginia Union University fans won’t see their Panthers at home until October.

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Coach Gilbert leaves Lady Panthers for Detroit Mercy

Virginia Union University’s next women’s basketball coach has a tough act to follow.

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Coronavirus and public tantrums

Re “Timeout for COVID-19,” Richmond Free Press April 23-25 edition: Most people have an understanding of the unusual virulence of COVID-19 and the need to limit exposure and spread.

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We need to protect children from human trafficking

Slavery has been abolished for more than 150 years nationwide since the enactment of the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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Goal of COVID-19 testing is to protect Richmonders and their families, by Mayor Levar M. Stoney

The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc across the globe and hitting the United States especially hard. And the hardest hit racial demographic in the U.S. is African-Americans, who are both contracting the disease and dying from the disease at a much higher rate than any other group.

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The coronavirus and achievement gap, by Julianne Malveaux

The coronavirus has upended our way of life, especially in urban America, where social distancing has replaced the laughter of children playing on the street, the excitement of preparing for graduation and prom and the frenzy of last-minute test preparation.

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All Americans deserve better, by Dr. E. Faye Williams

If we didn’t know before, we now know that we have a failed federal government. The man in the White House is so bad that we don’t really need to look for failures down the line.

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Revival linked to COVID-19

Deaths of 6 Metro Revival attendees may be connected to the coronavirus

A three-night revival in early March that brought more than 1,200 people from across the Richmond area to Cedar Street Baptist Church of God in Church Hill each evening appears to have helped spread the coronavirus in the African-American community.

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Dozens turn out for free testing at city sites

Zohao Maziri took short, painfully slow steps Monday as she fought the cool, windy weather to get tested for COVID-19 at Hillside Court on Richmond’s South Side.

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COVID-19 testing

We appreciate that city health officials are now announcing the days and locations for COVID-19 testing for people in the city’s public housing communities.

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Prudence and leadership

We took a principled — and now seemingly prescient — stance against the $1.5 billion Coliseum replacement and Downtown redevelopment plan that was pushed so hard by Mayor Levar M. Stoney and Dominion Energy CEO Thomas F. Farrell II, leader of the Navy Hill District Corp.

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Census deadline to be changed; jobs still available

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the 10-year census, officials report.

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State education official disputes findings of state inspector general

Virginia Inspector General Michael C. Westfall has reported that a top official in the state Department of Education set up a private consulting business that used resources developed through her state job and tweeted an announcement after setting up two websites to advertise her business.

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Corrections officers’ union calls for testing of all inmates and staff at Virginia facilities

A union representing state correctional officers is calling on Gov. Ralph S. Northam to immediately begin coronavirus testing for all officers, staff, residents and incarcerated people in facilities run by the Virginia Department of Corrections and the state Department of Juvenile Justice.

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Slices of life and scenes in Richmond

Workmen use a bucket truck to install panels at the 154-unit Jackson Ward Apartments in the block bounded by Duval, 1st, 2nd and Jackson streets.

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RRHA submits revised annual plan to HUD; details not public

Seven months after getting a rejection letter, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority has submitted changes to its 2020 annual plan in a bid to win approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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City Hall grants parking ticket amnesty until Aug. 31

City Hall is giving a break to people with outstanding parking tickets.

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City Council gives OK for Voter Registrar’s Office move

Richmond City Council cleared the way Monday night for the city’s Voter Registrar’s Office to move to 2134 W. Laburnum Ave. to provide needed room for voting and for storage of voting machines.

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Witness signature dropped for absentee ballots during pandemic

Absentee voters who receive their ballots by mail likely will not need to have a witness present when they cast their vote at home in Virginia’s June 23 primary election to choose candidates to run for the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House of Representatives. Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced Tuesday that he agrees with a federal lawsuit seeking the temporary suspen- sion of the state’s current requirement that voters casting mail-in ballots have someone present as they open the letter containing

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GRTC gets $32 million infusion from federal CARES Act, keeping rides free

Free fares on GRTC buses will continue through June 30 and could be extended at least through Dec. 30, according to information provided April 21 to the transit system’s board.