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 call on members of the Richmond School Board and Richmond City Council to end this ridiculous impasse that threatens to tank the sorely needed replacement of the dilapidated George Wythe High School in South Side.

We send hearty congratulations to new University of Richmond President Kevin F. Hallock for the bold actions taken last week by the university’s Board of Trustees to remove the names of slaveholders and segregationists from six campus buildings.

In case you missed them, the televised confirmation hearings for nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court are a study of extraordinary class in the face of arrogance, sexism, white privilege, homophobia and, yes, racism — everything …

It has no teeth.

Our nation is marking the start of the third year living with COVID-19.

The price of liberty is high.

The recent devastating fire at Fox Elementary School has heightened public concerns about the safety of school buildings throughout Richmond and around the state — and rightly so.

As Black History Month 2022 wraps up, we again call our readers’ attention to the growing national assaults on teaching and learning about America’s past and the racist policies and practices that have brought our city, state and nation to …

We can only imagine the grief and uncertainty that inundated the children and families of William F. Fox Elementary School last weekend when they learned their beloved schoolhouse had gone up in flames.

We are disappointed at the tumult engulfing the Virginia State Conference NAACP, which was brought on by the resignation last week of the civil rights organization’s 29-year-old executive director, Da’Quan Love.

We are gravely concerned by the growing disdain the Youngkin administration and his GOP and Democratic supporters have for the people of the Commonwealth.

“When we ban books in schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we are of them dying.”

After months of public speculation about his future, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer stood in the White House on Jan. 27 to announce his decision to retire. Justice Breyer, who has served on the high court since 1994, …

Black History Month. Dare we say those three words alone or in a sentence?