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VSU hosts high school robotics championships

Virginia State University’s College of Engineering and Technology will host the 2024 FIRST Chesapeake District Robotics Competition Championship April 4-6.

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Riverrock brings music and sports Downtown

Dominion Energy Riverrock, an annual outdoor sports and music festival, returns this week with a new layout and an expanded footprint.

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VUU’s future tied to Caine

In what has been a rebuilding season for Virginia Union University basketball, Joshua Caine is a cornerstone.

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VUU’s willingness to destroy historic hospital shows shortsightedness

As an alumna of Virginia Union University and a longtime resident of Richmond, I find it hard to believe, and digest, that my beloved alma mater is so callously dismissing the intrinsic value of this landmark, Richmond Community Hospital, in an historic part of the city, which includes the neighborhood that produced so many of the leaders entrenched in the uplifting of the Black community.

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Virginia Tech’s Brooks is halfway to 1,000 wins

Coach and women’s team think like champions, play like champions

Kenny Brooks has lifted Virginia Tech women’s basketball to new heights, and he’s far from finished.

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Virginia NAACP demands to see governor’s criteria for restoring voting rights to felons

The Virginia NAACP on Tuesday called on Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish clear and publicly available criteria for restoring the voting rights of convicted felons who have served their time, saying the system now is secretive and could discriminate against people of color.

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Underfunding education can be undone

Like past state leaders, Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin loves to talk about the importance of education and the need for a quality public school system.

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Expelled Black lawmaker Pearson to return to Tennessee House

The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the legislature after a Memphis, Tenn., commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday, nearly a week after his banishment for supporting gun control protesters propelled him into the national spotlight.

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Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse

A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.

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Newly empowered Virginia Democrats nominate the state’s first Black House speaker, Don Scott

Virginia’s state House will soon have its first Black speaker in its more than 400-year history after the chamber’s incoming Democratic majority on Saturday chose Del. Don Scott to serve in the post.

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Need: Attention to detail

City Hall is a $3 billion yearly operation with a lot of moving parts and thousands of employees.

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Feudalism in the Commonwealth, by Gary L. Flowers

In 1619, English colonizers brought captured Africans to Virginia on a cargo ship “The White Lion.” The white colonizers also brought a hierarchical social structure, left over from the days of feudalism in mid-evil England.

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Homeless people who died on U.S. streets are increasingly remembered at winter solstice gatherings

With his gap-tooth smile, hip-hop routines and volunteer work for a food charity, Roosevelt White III was well known in the downtown Phoenix tent city known as “The Zone.”

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McConnell tries to reassure colleagues about his health, vows to serve out term as Senate GOP leader

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared again Wednesday that he plans to finish his term as leader despite freezing up at two news conferences over the summer, brushing off questions about his health as he sought to reassure colleagues he’s still up to the job.

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Finally, a show of support

Mike Johnson, a staunch conservative from Louisiana, is elected House speaker

Republicans eagerly elected Rep. Mike Johnson as House speaker on Wednesday, elevating a deeply conservative but lesser-known leader to the seat of U.S. power and ending for now the political chaos in their majority.

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Richmond Public Schools must do better, by Mayor Levar M. Stoney

To be a city where everyone has a fair shot to thrive, we must support our youngest residents and those who care for them.

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Housing Secretary Fudge resigning; Biden hails her dedication to boosting supply of affordable homes

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge announced Monday that she would resign her post, effective March 22, saying she was leaving “with mixed emotions.”

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More shelters in place

Ask Mayor Levar M. Stoney about the unsheltered people in the city, and he’ll tell you the city is doing a bang-up job of addressing the need.

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Secrecy over defense secretary’s hospitalization has White House defensive

President Biden’s administration pledged from day one to restore truth and transparency to the federal government — but now it’s facing a maelstrom of criticism and credibility questions after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization was kept secret for days, even from the White House.

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LA’s Burke remembered in Pride Month

Glenn Burke left his mark in baseball, and not just because he was the Major Leagues’ first openly gay player.