Michael Walker and his 6-year-old daughter, Sage, perform with exuberance in March at the eighth annual Date with Dad, Dinner and Dance at Trinity Family Life Center on North Side.

Richmond native Rayvon Owen takes a selfie with throngs of cheering fans at Richmond City Hall before his hometown performance as an “American Idol” Top 4 finalist in May at the James Center.

Joseph D. “Joe” Morrissey, left, wearing an ankle bracelet on daytime release from jail, is given the cold shoulder by fellow politicians on his first day back in the House of Delegates in January after winning a special election for the seat he resigned from following his conviction in a sex scandal. His seatmates, Delegates Joseph E. Preston of Petersburg and Kathleen Murphy of Loudoun County, celebrate their first day at the General Assembly session with selfies.

Fireworks light up the sky and glow in the James River during the Fourth of July celebration at Brown’s Island in Downtown.

Protesters outside the General Assembly Building in Capitol Square call for an end to the school-to-prison pipeline during a march in November organized in part by members of the statewide RISE for Youth Coalition for juvenile justice reform.

Former Gov. Bob McDonnell embraces his daughter, Cailin, after a federal court judge sentenced him in January to two years in prison for corruption.

Spoken word artists Mysia Perry of Open High School, left, and Leslie Reyes of Huguenot High School share their talent and perspective at area poetry slams in March.

Fans from the African nation of Eritrea wave their nation’s flag as cyclists competing in the UCI Road World Championships speed past them in Downtown in September.

A portrait of the late civil rights giant Oliver W. Hill is unveiled in Virginia’s Executive Mansion in June by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, right, his wife, Dorothy McAuliffe, and Mr. Hill’s son, Oliver W. Hill Jr. The painting is one of the first of an African-American to be showcased in the house where Virginia governors have lived since 1813.

Worshipers sing “We Shall Overcome” at a unity rally in June at Third Street Bethel AME Church in Downtown following the fatal shooting in Charleston, S.C., of nine African- American church members and their pastor by a white supremacist.

The Ingramettes pay a final vocal tribute to their mother, noted gospel performer Maggie Ingram, during her funeral in July at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church in Henrico County.