Zoey, 5 (left) dances with her best friend Koi, 6, at the Black AF event Feb. 28 at Diversity Richmond. Curated by For The Fem In You, the event celebrated Black love in all forms, featuring food, art, wellness and music.

Construction workers at the VPM headquarters pause their work to observe the “March 4th Democracy” protest March 4. The five-story, 54,000-square-foot facility at 15 E. Broad St., will feature news and radio broadcast studios, podcast and music recording studios, offices and a 1,500-square-foot retail space.The project is scheduled for completion in 2026.

Ebony Blake of E Boutique shows customers one of her sweatshirts at the Black AF event on Friday, Feb. 28, at Diversity Richmond.

A mural celebrating Arthur Ashe and commemorating 50 years since his historic Wimbledon victory is added to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. Displayed at the Henrico Sports & Events Center, this artwork by local artist Hezekiah Baylor portrays Ashe’s journey to becoming a global tennis icon.

Students from Richmond Public Schools gather for a selfie with Superintendent Jason Kamras after the MLK Oratorical Contest held at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.

Shyla Scott, a senior at Richmond High School for the Arts, wins first place with her poem “Too Black,” analyzing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

An image of Kirkland Cogbill working at his press circa 1965, is displayed in the window of Glave Kocen Gallery. This was one of 20 large-scale historic photographs featured in windows throughout Shockoe Bottom as part of the public art project “Portals,” which celebrates the lives of Black Richmonders from the early 1800s to the 1980s.

History continues this month with Elegba Folklore Society’s concert “May the Ancestors Be Pleased,” at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. The performance interprets Kristine Mays’ “Rich Soil” exhibition, currently on view. The performance, free to attend, begins 2 p.m. Saturday, March 8, and features African dance, music and oral traditions, amplifying the themes of reckoning and ancestral recognition in Mays’ work.

Reconciliation statue in Shockoe Bottom