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Creating his own fun: Carter Powers, 4, puts his creative powers to use last Saturday during the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year of the Earth Pig celebration for the lunar new year. (Ava Reaves)

Creating his own fun: Carter Powers, 4, puts his creative powers to use last Saturday during the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year of …

Published on February 22, 2019
Work is underway at 9th and Broad streets on a new 15-story office building for members of the General Assembly. The previous General Assembly Building, as it was called, was torn down last year, with only the historic 1912 façade saved for incorporation into the new building. The façade is being held in place with metal scaffolding. The new building is expected to be completed in 2021. About $300 million is being invested in the new construction and in the renovation of Old City Hall, seen in the background. For now, General Assembly members have offices in temporary quarters in the Pocahontas Building on Main Street. (Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press)

Work is underway at 9th and Broad streets on a new 15-story office building for members of the General Assembly. The previous General Assembly Building, …

Published on February 22, 2019
Pine cones in Byrd Park (Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press)

Pine cones in Byrd Park (Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press)

Published on February 22, 2019
Year of the Earth Pig: It was a celebration of the lunar new year last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year of the Earth Pig. Scores of families participated in the festivities that featured an exploration of Chinese art and culture through dance, calligraphy, tea tasting and art activities. Children and young adult dancers from Yu Dance Arts perform traditional Chinese dances with modern Western aesthetics. Performers from RYSE Lion Dance at VCU show off the Fut San style of lion dance that originated in ancient southern China. Youngsters could craft an Earth Pig with air-dry clay, decorate a Chinese folding fan, write their New Year’s wishes on a paper lantern, learn Chinese words and enjoy tai chi demonstrations and storytelling during the event. (Ava Reaves)

Year of the Earth Pig: It was a celebration of the lunar new year last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year …

Published on February 22, 2019
Year of the Earth Pig: It was a celebration of the lunar new year last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year of the Earth Pig. Scores of families participated in the festivities that featured an exploration of Chinese art and culture through dance, calligraphy, tea tasting and art activities. Children and young adult dancers from Yu Dance Arts perform traditional Chinese dances with modern Western aesthetics. Performers from RYSE Lion Dance at VCU show off the Fut San style of lion dance that originated in ancient southern China. Youngsters could craft an Earth Pig with air-dry clay, decorate a Chinese folding fan, write their New Year’s wishes on a paper lantern, learn Chinese words and enjoy tai chi demonstrations and storytelling during the event. (Ava Reaves)

Year of the Earth Pig: It was a celebration of the lunar new year last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year …

Published on February 22, 2019
Year of the Earth Pig: It was a celebration of the lunar new year last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year of the Earth Pig. Scores of families participated in the festivities that featured an exploration of Chinese art and culture through dance, calligraphy, tea tasting and art activities. Children and young adult dancers from Yu Dance Arts, perform traditional Chinese dances with modern Western aesthetics. Performers from RYSE Lion Dance at VCU show off the Fut San style of lion dance that originated in ancient southern China. Youngsters could craft an Earth Pig with air-dry clay, decorate a Chinese folding fan, write their New Year’s wishes on a paper lantern, learn Chinese words and enjoy tai chi demonstrations and storytelling during the event. (Ava Reaves)

Year of the Earth Pig: It was a celebration of the lunar new year last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year …

Published on February 22, 2019
Year of the Earth Pig: It was a celebration of the lunar new year last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year of the Earth Pig. Scores of families participated in the festivities that featured an exploration of Chinese art and culture through dance, calligraphy, tea tasting and art activities. Children and young adult dancers from Yu Dance Arts perform traditional Chinese dances with modern Western aesthetics. Performers from RYSE Lion Dance at VCU show off the Fut San style of lion dance that originated in ancient southern China. Youngsters could craft an Earth Pig with air-dry clay, decorate a Chinese folding fan, write their New Year’s wishes on a paper lantern, learn Chinese words and enjoy tai chi demonstrations and storytelling during the event. (Ava Reaves)

Year of the Earth Pig: It was a celebration of the lunar new year last Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ ChinaFest: Year …

Published on February 22, 2019
Residents of Buckingham County sing along as a town hall with former vice-president Al Gore and Rev. William Barber begins in Buckingham, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. The town hall is to protest the proposed compressor station in Union Hill for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Residents of Buckingham County sing along as a town hall with former vice-president Al Gore and Rev. William Barber begins in Buckingham, Va., Tuesday, Feb. …

Published on February 22, 2019
Richmond Superintendent Jason Kamras finishes a recent day visiting 12 schools by watching a student work on a laptop at Barack Obama Elementary School.

Richmond Superintendent Jason Kamras finishes a recent day visiting 12 schools by watching a student work on a laptop at Barack Obama Elementary School.

Published on February 21, 2019
Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax

Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax

Published on February 21, 2019
Richmond Police try to move Virginia Union University students out of The Richmond Room restaurant in Thalhimer’s department store in Downtown where they refused to leave, protesting the whites-only policy for service. Dr. A.J. Franklin is the student at center wearing the raincoat that is slightly open.

Richmond Police try to move Virginia Union University students out of The Richmond Room restaurant in Thalhimer’s department store in Downtown where they refused to …

Published on February 21, 2019
Dr. Anderson A.J. Franklin

Dr. Anderson A.J. Franklin

Published on February 21, 2019
Elizabeth Johnson Rice

Elizabeth Johnson Rice

Published on February 21, 2019
Protesters head down Franklin Street to the State Capitol during Monday’s March of Reckoning calling for the resignation of the state’s top three elected officials and a halt to Dominion Energy’s natural gas pipeline and compressor station in the historically African-American community of Union Hill in Buckingham County.

Protesters head down Franklin Street to the State Capitol during Monday’s March of Reckoning calling for the resignation of the state’s top three elected officials …

Published on February 21, 2019
Rev. William Barber

Rev. William Barber

Published on February 21, 2019
Al Gore

Al Gore

Published on February 21, 2019
Douglas W. Rawlings

Douglas W. Rawlings

Published on February 15, 2019
Councilwoman Ellen Robertson

Councilwoman Ellen Robertson

Published on February 15, 2019
Rendering of new children's hospital from Marshall Street

Rendering of new children's hospital from Marshall Street

Published on February 15, 2019
Damon E. Duncan

Damon E. Duncan

Published on February 15, 2019