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Richmond awarded federal planning grant for Gilpin Court renovation
Richmond has been awarded a $450,000 federal grant to assist with planning for a major redo of the Gilpin Court public housing community, which sits just north of Downtown.
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City plans new Park and Ride-type initiative
Instead of driving into Downtown and searching for parking, how about parking and catching a bus or van that would link you to the Pulse rapid transit to ride to your destination?
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Elite African runners missing from this year’s Richmond Marathon
For those thumbing through the Richmond Marathon pre-race information, there was this snippet: “No prize money will be awarded in 2021.”
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State tests bring to light pandemic learning gap
Richmond Public Schools student learning gap widened with the pandemic, according to results from this fall’s Virginia Growth Assessment testing by the state Department of Education.
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City and state to benefit from $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending bill
Richmond could see at least one new bridge and an expansion of the Pulse bus rapid-transit system as benefits of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that President Biden signed into law Monday.
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Thanksgiving food programs available to help individuals, families
Richmond area organizations are spreading the bounty of Thanksgiving food with individuals and families in need during this season.
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City Council poised to transfer money for new George Wythe design
A funding snafu over design money for a new high school in South Side appears to be heading for a relatively quick resolution.
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Deion Sanders in the running for TCU job
Deion Sanders’ coaching stint as Jackson State University has been sweet. But will it also be short?
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Tone deaf and worse
We were stopped cold by the remarks of the Richmond Marathon’s longtime lead coordinator of elite athletes, who, in an interview with the Free Press, offered his thoughts on race organizers not giving prize money to this year’s winners.
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Investing in people and communities, by Ben Jealous
President Biden and the Democratic Congress have come through with a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package — something the previous president repeatedly promised but never delivered.
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The next big thing?
City officials are turning to the planned development of 60 acres of city-owned property in North Side around The Diamond for a big return
What’s the next big thing for Richmond now that the $565 million casino-resort project for South Side and the $1.5 billion Navy Hill project for Downtown are kaput?
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Neo-Nazis sentenced for planning attack at Richmond rally
Two neo-Nazi group members were sentenced on Oct. 28 to nine years in prison each in a case that highlighted a broader federal crackdown on far-right extremists.
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Casino defeat raises questions about what’s next
Alfred C. Liggins III is firmly committed to making casino gaming a key part of Urban One, the Black media conglomerate he runs with his mother, Cathy Hughes.
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Elections have consequences
Elections have consequences. We already have seen that with the rejection on Nov. 2 by Richmond voters of the $565 million planned casino and resort development.
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No respect for Black people, by Dr. E. Faye Williams
I read as much as I can from as wide a variety of sources available to me. An important email from the National Trust for Historic Preservation crossed my desk regarding the encroachment of a public highway upon an historic African-American settlement and cemetery.
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Former Gov. A. Linwood Holton, a Republican whose actions helped break down racial barriers in the state, succumbs at 98
When a federal court in 1970 ordered Richmond students to be bused to integrate public schools, new Virginia Gov. A. Linwood “Lin” Holton Jr. showed his sup- port by enrolling his four children and having them attend majority- Black schools.
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Catholic group pushes expedited sainthood for 6 African-Americans
BALTIMORE The process of recognizing saints in Catholicism is so arduous that it can take generations, even centuries, to complete, but even the usually slow-moving Catholic church can accelerate matters when it wants to. In the cases of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Pope John Paul II, for example, church officials waived a five-year waiting period after their deaths to get the process started. Now a group of Baltimore Catholics says it’s time to expedite the cases of six other heroes of the faith. Parishioners of St. Ann’s Catholic Church, a predominantly African-American congregation in the East Baltimore Midway neighborhood, and the two other churches in its pastorate, Historic St. Francis Xavier and St. Wenceslaus, seek to make the case that the church should immediately canonize six Black American Catholics. The candidates include Mother Mary Lange, a Baltimore nun who started and ran a school for Black children during the era of slavery.
