Family members embrace new Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney in a prayer circle before he takes the oath of office at Richmond City Hall on Dec. 31, 2016. Below, throngs of demonstrators, many wearing signature pink hats, crowd Washington streets the day after President Trump’s inauguration in January for the Women’s March on Washington.

Mist rises on the James River in South Side.

Student Nick Booker, center, takes a selfie with aviator Barrington Irving, left, and Douglass School Dean Elbert Brinson after Mr. Irving’s February talk at the Science Museum of Virginia.

Teens mourn the shooting deaths of friends Mikkaisha D. Smoot, 16 and Taliek K. Brown, 15, during a prayer vigil in April in Mosby Court. Below, Julius Jackson, left, and Tristan Albers of Chimborazo Elementary School perform the tango at the Dancing Classrooms GRVA Colors of the Rainbow Team Match in April.

Throngs of demonstrators, many wearing signature pink hats, crowd Washington streets the day after President Trump’s inauguration in January for the Women’s March on Washington.

A portrait of the late Farmville activist Barbara Johns is displayed at the March dedication of a state building at 202 N. 9th St. that is named in her honor. At right is her sister, Joan Johns Cobbs.

Julius Jackson, left, and Tristan Albers of Chimborazo Elementary School perform the tango at the Dancing Classrooms GRVA Colors of the Rainbow Team Match in April.

Brigette Newberry, center, a teacher at Open High School, calls in May for transparency from the Richmond School Board on circumstances surrounding Superintendent Dana T. Bedden’s departure.

Ram Bhagat, left, and his drum circle set the beat for a yoga session in June at a Jackson Ward juice and yoga bar.

Cheers arise from the crowd as a statue honoring Richmond businesswoman and icon Maggie L. Walker is unveiled at a July 15 ceremony at the plaza at Broad and Adams streets.

Richmond Police officers in riot gear separate neo-Confederates and counterprotesters during a rally Sept. 16 at the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond.

Former President Barack Obama energizes the crowd during a campaign appearance in Richmond with Virginia’s Democratic ticket candidates, from left, Justin Fairfax, lieutenant governor; Mark Herring, attorney general; and Ralph S. Northam, governor. Right, Virginia State University tailback Trenton “Boom” Cannon goes airborne for a touchdown in the Trojans’ nail-biting 40-39 victory over Virginia Union University on Nov. 4.

Virginia State University tailback Trenton “Boom” Cannon goes airborne for a touchdown in the Trojans’ nail-biting 40-39 victory over Virginia Union University on Nov. 4.

Birds flock to a feeder at 4th and Grace streets in Downtown.

City scape// A giant fruitcake now stands on the lawn of the Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 W. Broad St. Actually, it’s a fruitcake-shaped balloon advertising the museum’s annual “Fruitcake Science” experiments. Through Saturday, Dec. 30, the museum is holding activities and demonstrations involving possibly the most unpopular holiday treat. “We burn it, freeze, smash it and new this year, let people build contraptions to send it down a zip line,” said museum spokeswoman Jennifer Guild. “It’s our fun, quirky little way of teaching some science concepts in a different way.”

Decorative grass in North Side