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- Bagby wins Va. Senate special election
  
  Richmonders want funding for schools, housing, less gas
  
  Another death at Richmond jail
  
  Hickory Hill community opposes planned fire training facility
  
  The battle for parental rights and government oversight remains alive
  
  McClellan becomes 1st Black Virginia woman in Congress
  
  Toni Morrison honored with new stamp unveiled at Princeton
  
  Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff
  
  Argentina soccer team abandons parade amid swarms of people
  
  French federation to go after abusers of World Cup players
  
  Griner’s home, but WNBA players still competing overseas
  
  Russian diplomat says prisoner swap with U.S. remains possible
Opinion
- Youngkin spikes restoration of voting rights
  
  Black people can’t breathe
  
  No debt deal = doom
  
  Talking trash
  
  A Black woman’s unequal cost of protesting, by Julianne Malveaux
  
  Conservative groups don’t speak for all moms, by Svante Myrick
  
  Jennifer McClellan’s leadership skills in Virginia will be critical in Washington, by Reginald ...
  
  SVB bank failure isn’t about being ‘woke’, by Julianne Malveaux
  
  Change must come
  
  To Gov. Youngkin:
  
  ‘That was Karl’
  
  Thank you, Richmond Free Press
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  A brief history of the Black church’s diversity, and its vital role in ...
  
  What is Black History Month in a white Christian nation?
  
  Docuseries on Black church highlights history, links to biblical orthodoxy
  
  Faith leaders react to Tyre Nichols police video beating with grief, goals
  
  Richmond’s Randall Robinson reshaped American’s foreign policy, forced change in South Africa
  
  Former record store owner remembered
  
  Helen Harris, a leading voice for Henrico County’s Black residents, remembered
  
  Rev. Clifford B. Chambliss Jr. dies at 81
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  Personality: Shirley H. Scarborough
  
  Personality: Margaret Rose ‘Meg’ Medina
  
  Personality: Alma W. Hughes
  
  Personality: Alexander L. Taylor Jr.
  
  Pine Camp theater program enhances students’ confidence, world view
  
  James Solomon Russell Day celebrated with new documentary
  
  People to see, places to go!
  
  Bubba’s Block Party returns
Sports
- Can’t stop dancing
  
  Justices’ court rulings continue - JM’s Dennis Parker Jr. named Player of the ...
  
  Joe Taylor adds Hampton to his HOF honors
  
  NSU’s associate coach is one to watch
  
  NBA legend Willis Reed dies at age 80
Black Experience
- 'Architect of rock 'n' roll,' Little Richard, dies at 87
  
  Grammy-winning singer Betty Wright succumbs at 66
  
  Andre Harrell, who founded Uptown Records and launched many careers, dies at 5
  
  First 400 years
  
  Big 10 football rivalry creates George Jewett Trophy
  
  Olympian and activist Lee Evans, who took iconic stand at 1968 Mexico City ...
  
  Legend of screen and television Cicely Tyson dies at 96
  
  Beloved slugger, MLB Hall of Famer Hank Aaron dies at 86
  
  Hampton University announces new president
  
  Obamas break ground for $830M presidential library
  
  ‘Forgotten First:’ A look at four – and more – NFL trailblazers
  
  Boston’s new mayor marks historic ‘firsts’ leading city
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Bagby wins Va. Senate special election

Delegate Bagby

Henrico Democratic Delegate Lamont Bagby, as anticipated, crushed Republican rival Stephen J. “Steve” Imholt in Tuesday’s voting for a Richmond-area ...

‘We will stand for you’

Caroline A. Ouko, the mother of 28-year-old Irvo Noel Otieno speaks Wednesday during her son’s funeral at First Baptist Church of South Richmond, Ironbridge, in North Chesterfield County. Standing with her is her eldest son, left, Leon Ochieng, and right, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Benjamin Crump.

Family, friends and other mourners gathered Wednesday at a Virginia church to remember Irvo Otieno at a funeral service, celebrating ...

Richmond’s Randall Robinson reshaped American’s foreign policy, forced change in South Africa

Mr. Robinson

Seared by the segregation he grew up with in Richmond, Randall Maurice Robinson championed change in American policies toward African ...

Personality: Shirley H. Scarborough

For the past two years Shirley H. Scarborough has worked, in her own words, to create “Beauty for Ashe,” through ...

Can’t stop dancing

Something missing here? For the first time since the NCAA basketball tournament began in 1939, there are zero No. 1 ...

Pine Camp theater program enhances students’ confidence, world view

Student participants and instructors in this year’s Pine Camp “Journey - Mapping Your Career Course” program recently traveled to Kentucky to learn more about theater careers. They are, from right, Rochelle Turnage, theater production assistant at Pine Camp, Maria Johnson, Jace Miles, Elizabeth Hudson, Sidnei Jefferson, Darrelle Graham Jr. and Ella Hunt. Sitting is Barbara Brock, a Pine Camp program specialist and coordinator.

A program at Richmond’s Pine Camp Cultural Arts and Community Center is helping students learn job readiness skills by using ...

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