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Local teams return from Snoop Youth Football League Nationals with memories

Four area youth football teams returned from Los Angeles with no championships but with a treasure chest of memories.

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Influential African-Americans who died in 2022

They were literary giants, luminaries of stage and screen, and masters of their chosen professions – be it music, sports or fashion. Most are famous, a few are notorious. Yet they all profoundly impacted their fields of endeavor.

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4 area teams heading to LA for Snoop Youth Football League Nationals

Four area youth football teams are heading to Los Angeles for the Snoop Youth Football League Nationals Dec. 14 through 16. The Snoop League was founded by rapper and entertainer Snoop Dogg in 2005 in Southern California. The league now has about 20 teams throughout California.

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City backs off plan for former NFL player to operate youth football program

City Hall has quietly backed away from a plan to allow former NFL star Michael Robinson to operate the city’s fall youth football program through his nonprofit, volunteer-led Excel 2 Excellence football program.

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Educator, counselor Susie Banian succumbs at 82

Susie Ann Banian, a veteran Richmond teacher and guidance counselor who also sang in multiple church and community choirs, has died.

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VUU Panthers trip themselves with 3 interceptions, 12 penalties

Two games into its football season, Virginia Union University has no wins and lots of problems. Tormented by penalties and turnovers, the Panthers now face a road trip to play CIAA juggernaut Winston-Salem State University on Saturday, Sept. 17.

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Remembering an icon

The esteemed civil rights leader, Dr. Dorothy Irene Height, a native of Richmond, would have celebrated her 112th birthday on Sunday, March 24. Although she died April 20, 2010, at age 98 in Washington, D.C., her legacy remains strong, especially in Richmond’s Blackwell neighborhood where she was born.

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HU’s Davion Warren among the state’s Division I top scorers

If one can imagine basketball as a track relay, Jermaine Marrow has handed the baton to Davion Warren at Hampton University.

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South Side Ducks headed to Los Angeles

A Richmond youth team once again is headed to Los Angeles to compete in the Snoop Youth Football League National Tournament.

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Richard R. Jiggetts, who was instrumental in rebuilding of First Baptist Church Centralia, dies at 98

When arson destroyed the historic but vacant former sanctuary of First Baptist Church Centralia in 1996, everyone bemoaned the fiery loss of an irreplaceable church building.

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Second round no charm in NCAA Division II: VSU Trojans lose 82-80 squeaker to West Liberty

Virginia State University’s best basketball season in school history stalled just this side of Pittsburgh.

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Ellalee Fountain Flowers dies at age 98

Ellalee Fountain Flowers, a former Virginia Union University and Richmond Public Schools educator, died on Sunday, May 15, 2022. Mrs. Flowers, who lived in Richmond, was 98.

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Make Kunta Kinte’s burial site a mecca

In a 1965 edition of Collier’s Encyclopedia, an account of the arrival of the first enslaved people in Virginia was offered thusly, supposedly by someone who was there: “About the last of August came in a Dutch man of warre that sold us 20 negars.” That’s markedly different from the way I usually see it portrayed.

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RPS lunch times to be extended

The Richmond School Board unanimously approved a motion during their meeting Monday evening for a minimum 20-minute seated lunch time.

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VLBC sees progress

The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus announced progress in its legislative agenda in terms of voter rights, criminal justice, education, arrest and confinement, and more.

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Appeals court ruling keeps Biden student debt plan on hold

President Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers was handed another legal loss Monday when a federal ap- peals court panel agreed to a preliminary injunction halting the program while an appeal plays out.

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Adoption advocate and political campaign volunteer Annette ‘Nettie’ Gordon dies at 82

Annette White “Nettie” Gordon, who helped build an adoption program focused on Black children and volunteered in campaigns of Democratic candidates, has died.

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VUU Panthers upended in exhibition game against VCU Rams

College basketball preseason exhibitions are more about evaluating talent than the numbers on the scoreboard. In the final tune-up before the games really count, Virginia Commonwealth University used the home-floor advantage and a ferocious press to upend Virginia Union University 98-74 last Friday at the Siegel Center.

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Rudolfo Anaya, ‘godfather’ of Chicano literature, dies at 82

Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel, “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82.

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‘We already have reparations’

Letters to the Editor

Re “Lawmakers hear the case for reparations,” Free Press June 20-22 edition: There are no block grant monies that have or will be solely targeted to the African-American community in an attempt to make amends for the wrong the government and others have done.

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