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Children paying the price for gun violence

Gun reform has been revisited time after time. It is time now for action to be taken. Gun violence has continued to plague Richmond’s African-American community.

No to casino off Arthur Ashe Boulevard

Richmond doesn’t need a casino at Bow Tie Cinemas off Arthur Ashe Boulevard.

Denying our humanity

It has been more than 400 years since the first Black people arrived in Virginia on the shores of what would become the United States of America. And more than 400 years later, we are still fighting for recognition of …

GOP postures as party of working people, by Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

The debate over President Biden’s $2 trillion American Infrastructure Plan is heating up — and getting more and more unhinged. Republicans are railing against the president for asking for too much. They promise a filibuster against the bill unless there …

Transforming police must come from bottom up, by Ben Jealous

Hearing the words “Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.” in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial brought millions of Americans a feeling of relief. But that relief was incomplete.

Holding police officers accountable, by Dr. Ronald Fraser

Since 1871, the Civil Rights Act has held state and local officials, including police officers, legally liable for damages if their actions violated a citizen’s constitutional rights.

School Board should focus on education, not school construction

Re “School Board taking control of new building construction,” Free Press April 15-17 edition: Members of the Richmond School Board are putting politics over people.

A ‘bid for cheap immortality’

Re “Confederate chair held ransom: White Lies Matter group threatens to turn stolen $500,000 chair into a ‘toilet’ unless the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond posts banner on anniversary of Confederate surrender,” Free Press April 8-10 edition:

Police brutality should not become the norm

We should not be looking at murders live on television of Black men and women and saying, “I’m shocked! Oh my God, another one murdered!”

Police need help to stop the violence

In Richmond lately, there have been several deadly shootings in our beloved city. Reasons for many have yet to be determined. There is never a reason, to me, to take someone’s life unless in self defense. But this does not …

‘Gun control has nothing to do with guns; it is people control’

The purpose of this letter is correct myths surrounding the AR-15 rifle, the most popular rifle in America.

George Floyd

George Floyd

Is America failing Millennials, Gen Zs? by Dr. Stephanie Mayers and Jan Perry

During the last two weeks of March and first week of April, Americans were shocked with alarming news of mass shootings and violent attacks in Atlanta; Boulder, Colo.; Washington, D.C.; and York County, S.C. Out of the 20 mass shootings …

Standing on sidelines not an option by Marc H. Morial

In the long arc of the nation’s history of racially motivated voter suppression, 2021 will stand as a clear and distinct moment that changed everything that came after. Whether it will symbolize the demise of such suppression – or its …

Police abuse redux

When will the police abuse and killing of Black people stop?