What would a conversation between Aretha Franklin and the Apostle Paul sound like?

This school year will mark the first time Richmond Public Schools implements a “staggered” start to the school year.

Richmond’s theater community lost one of its own last week in a tragic act of gun violence.

It isn’t often that a bundle of maps writes a prescription for change. But that’s the takeaway of a new offering from researchers at the University of Richmond.

In 2014, when Higher Heights for America and the Center for American Women in Politics released our first report on the status of Black women in American politics, the data confirmed what we already knew: Black women were underrepresented at …

Remember when then-candidate Donald Trump said during an Iowa campaign rally in 2016 that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” I quickly put that aside as just …

Republican lawmakers cannot have it both ways. They cannot continue to push for tax cuts for the wealthy and not have it catch up with them and the country. They cannot push for tax cuts for the wealthy and, when …

Several years ago, we witnessed a personal racial reckoning by our governor, Ralph Northam, who, after remembering the time he wore blackface as part of a Michael Jackson costume, came to understand how wrong that was.

A common Republican talking point is that Democrats can’t be trusted to manage major cities. Donald Trump and his Republican allies can barely hide their disdain for Democrats of color leading America’s largest cities. They deride these mayors as “DEI” …

As if he didn’t have enough on his mind in late summer, President Trump has called on two professional sports teams to revert to their former names — which unfortunately sound to many ears like racial slurs.

During the Reagan era, prominent figures of the Religious Right movement played a significant role in mobilizing conservative Christians and advocating for their political interests. While the movement was largely led by figures such as Jerry Falwell (Moral Majority) and …

Something happened in the world of sports this week that was a bit unusual, based on the standards for public behavior that we’ve become accustomed to. No, I’m not talking about the problematic suggestion to return the Washington football team’s …

The namesake of the 1980s sitcom “The Cosby Show” was known as America’s father for dispensing advice, humor and occasional zerberts to his beloved family.

When Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, the change in administration provided the nation with a four-year reprieve from much of the misery now emerging during the early months of Trump’s second term.

According to a joint court filing in a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service by the National Religious Broadcasters Association, pastors who endorse political candidates from the pulpit shouldn’t have to risk putting their churches’ tax-exempt status in jeopardy.