The funding decisions local leaders make today impact our collective future. That’s why the Central Virginia Transportation Authority would like to hear from the public about a new proposed funding scenario that includes $276.4 million to improve the region’s bike, …

We call our readers’ attention to 4/20 — World Weed Day — and efforts toward equal and restorative justice for Black and brown communities that for decades have borne the brunt of the national “War on Drugs.”

Black history is American history.

Throughout my life, I have been blessed with family and friends who have admonished me to be a critical thinker. Not only was I challenged to think, but to think with clarity, appropriate urgency and logic. The old idea of …

There was a great deal of sympathy by white people for injustices toward Black people after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police.

A recent Washington Post article, “Surge of international applicants at elite colleges,” reported that academic institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth, etc. have experienced a large increase in international applications to attend their institutions. Since …

During this season of rebirth...

I do this thing in my head with President Biden. When he gets on my nerves, I often call him President. When I want something from him or want to thank him for something, I call him Brother Biden.

I can’t completely or accurately articulate my elation upon witnessing President Biden signing the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law late last month. With his signature, he affirmed what Congress had acknowledged — that lynching was, indeed, a federal hate …

Re “Re-entry training program locked out of former school building,” Free Press April 7-9 edition:

April 11-15 is National Work Zone Awareness Week.

Who are America’s oligarchs?

We pause this week to reflect on the light and lessons shared with this country and the world by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We keep learning more about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. And we keep learning more about the many schemes former President Trump and his team tried to use to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

There are right ways and wrong ways to accomplish most things. A few days ago, the world witnessed the wrong way to defend and honor women, if that is what Will Smith thought he was doing.