VSU in last-minute matchup Saturday against Tuskegee
It doesn’t get much better than this. If Virginia State University’s basketball forecast were any brighter, you’d need a visor and wrap-around shades to read this preview.
VSU beats NSU in double-overtime exhibition game
It was just an exhibition game, but Virginia State University, an NCAA Division II team, flexed its muscles against Norfolk State University, a Division I team, on Saturday, Nov. 5, in Ettrick.
Trojans picked to dominate CIAA basketball
It doesn’t get much better than this. If Virginia State University’s basketball forecast were any brighter, you’d need a visor and wrap-around shades to read this preview.
VUU hoping for hoops wins
Virginia Union University ranks with the nation’s most improved basketball programs over the last two years. And there are signs the upswing will continue.
Bishop Hunt to celebrate 45th anniversary Nov.13
Refuge Temple Assembly of Yahweh Yahoshua the Messiah is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its pastor, Bishop Milton J. Hunt.
Charleston ‘on eggshells’ with 2 racially charged trials
Trials in two South Carolina shootings that rocked the country last year and raised questions about race in America started last week, putting the city of Charleston on edge as the community awaits the testimony and jury decisions.
Miss. church torched, vandalized with Trump graffiti receives support
Two days after a black Mississippi church was torched and marked with “Vote Trump” graffiti, more than $180,000 has been raised to repair it.
D.C. approves ‘Death with Dignity Act’
The City Council in the nation’s capital has overwhelmingly voted for a bill that would allow terminally ill people a medically assisted death.
Personality: Johnnie E. Hagans
Spotlight on president of Military Retirees Club Inc.
Johnnie E. Hagans says joining the military was the biggest chance he ever took. And he’s glad he did. He urges young people to consider the military as an option.
‘Right person at right time to do the job’
In an election season where “stronger together” resounded among Democrats nationally, Richmond mayoral front-runners Jack Berry and Joe Morrissey and their supporters congregated on Election Night in diametrically opposing spaces.
A. Donald McEachin now headed to Congress
Henrico state Sen. A. Donald McEachin soon will be heading to Washington. The 55-year-old attorney who carried the Democratic banner claimed the revamped 4th Congressional District seat Tuesday to cap a hard-fought contest with his Republican rival, veteran Henrico County Sheriff Michael L. Wade. Sen. McEachin’s victory will change the state’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives, which now will have four Democrats and seven Republicans. It also will trigger competition to fill his state Senate seat.
4 new faces to join 5 incumbents on Richmond City Council
The five veterans on Richmond City Council will have four new colleagues in dealing with the plans and initiatives of the new mayor.
Richmond School Board will have nearly complete turnover
Jeff M. Bourne will be the only holdover when the Richmond School Board starts a new four-year term in January. The board’s current chairman and a deputy Virginia attorney general, Mr. Bourne, 40, received 63 percent of the vote in the 3rd District in North Side to easily defeat two challengers, Kevin A. Starlings and Jessee M. Perry and secure a second term. However, Richmond voters swept out three other incumbents and filled five vacant seats, ensuring eight new individuals — four African-Americans and four white people — will join Mr. Bourne in overseeing Richmond Public Schools when the board convenes for the first time next year.
‘I will be president for all Americans’
Republican Donald Trump offered these remarks about 3 a.m. Wednesday from New York after winning the presidential election:
Thank you. Thank you very much, everyone. Sorry to keep you waiting; complicated business; complicated.
‘Never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it’
Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans.
‘Nobody had to wonder whether she would accept the outcome’
Richmond resident and U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, who was tapped to be Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate, introduced her Wednesday before her concession speech. His wife, Anne Holton, former Virginia secretary of education, was by his side:
‘They kilt us, but they ain’t whupped us yet’
Democrat Hillary Clinton defeated in one of nation’s most stunning political upsets in history
Emboldened Republicans claimed a mandate Wednesday for Donald Trump after his stunning election as the 45th president of the United States.
To ‘Tiger Tom’: Thanks for the memories!
Re “ ‘Tiger Tom’ hits 100: Local radio, news icon was voice of community for more than 50 years,” Oct. 27-29 edition: Congratulations to “Tiger Tom” for reaching 100 and being married to his wife of 56 years. I remember listening to him regularly when he was at WANT radio station. Yes, there was only one Tiger Tom. He continued to do what he loved for more than 50 years.
‘Joe Morrissey is no Marion Barry’
The political advertisement in the Richmond Free Press of black women standing alongside mayoral candidate Joe Morrissey is mind-boggling. Mr. Morrissey’s personal behavior would be well in line within the social norms of the 1800s, when a white male could do whatever he desired with black girls and women without suffering any repercussions.
