Black farmers and COVID-19 relief
If you ever begin to doubt that elections matter, think about Black farmers.
Support the For the People Act
To the American People: We write to you today as citizens who love this country and care deeply about its future. And right now, the most important thing we can do to protect that future is to rise together in …
Pentagon’s Flynn needs to be charged in Jan. 6 attack
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Charles A. Flynn needs to be taken into custody immediately by the FBI for facilitating the right wing domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Voting rights restoration
Voting is the lynchpin of democracy.
Getting to the other side
One year ago this week, COVID-19 stealthily came into our community and upended our lives. It has been a hard year.
‘They don’t want our souls at the polls’, by Julianne Malveaux
The Souls to the Polls movement encourages African-American church attendees to get out and vote. The churches that promote this movement cannot, because of their 501(c)(3) status, endorse candidates. They can, however, emphasize the gospel of social and economic justice …
Black Americans want vaccine
“They’ve read all this stuff rate is half the white rate. Black people who don’t intend online, from different news sources, which is confusing. But then they meet me, as someone who has had the shot, and I can give …
COVID-19 scams on the rise, by Nina Mohan
Scammers are taking advantage of the confusion surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine distribution and using it as an opportunity to prey on consumers anxious to get their shots.
The prince and the duchess
If anyone is unclear about the damage racism causes, one had only to watch media mogul Oprah Winfrey’s sad and sickening interview with Meghan Markle, the duchess of Sussex, and her husband, Prince Harry.
Raising the minimum wage is about racial justice, by Ben Jealous
It is time for a maximum push for a new minimum wage.
Step in the right direction, by Julianne Malveaux
Exhale. Relief is on the way.
More study of free Black people who owned slaves needed
It recently was announced that four state-supported institutions of higher learning in Virginia have inaugurated an exploratory group, tentatively named The Center for the Study of Free Black Men and Women in Virginia, in hopes of telling some untold stories …
Spanberger demonstrates leadership on climate issues
The past year saw us battling several crises at once: An unprecedented pandemic and the economic fallout that came with it, systemic racism and disparity and the effects of a changing climate, which made itself known in a season of …
An about-face
Who lit a fire under Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras?
New CEO
We hope that residents of Richmond’s public housing communities will offer their thoughts on what qualities the next CEO of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority should have and what challenges he or she will face.
