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- Danny Avula, who coordinated state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, is running for mayor
  
  RPS school board member Jonathan Young responds to student allegations
  
  Gov. Youngkin amends Virginia ‘skill games’ legislation, acts on other final bills
  
  State NAACP serves governor’s office with intent to sue for violation of FOIA
  
  After swearing off politics, Georgia activist now recruits people who seldom vote
  
  Two years after historic win, a divided Amazon Labor Union lurches toward a ...
  
  What to know about Biden’s latest attempt at student loan cancellation
  
  Biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant, but ...
  
  Total solar eclipse wows North America
  
  Shock, grief and mourning for 3 Georgia-based U.S. soldiers killed in Middle East ...
  
  Ruins of ancient Nero’s Theater discovered near Vatican
  
  House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her Israel-Hamas rhetoric in a ...
Opinion
- Let’s show up and show out
  
  Mail delays leave Richmonders in the dark
  
  Easter like Sunday morning
  
  Safe and secure
  
  Deriding DEI is the right’s attempt at a polite way to attack civil ...
  
  In April, honor memories and seek reforms, by Thomas P. Kapsidelis
  
  Newest anti-homelessness project builds on strong efforts statewide, by Roger Chesley
  
  Census forms are changing again — because we are, by Clarence Page
  
  Former VUU presidents ensured buildings’ preservation
  
  ‘What became of the Black People of Sumer?’
  
  Richmond Community Hospital: Finding compromise is possible!
  
  Zeta Phi Beta chapter to VUU: Don’t demolish historic hospital
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  Religious affairs expert Thomas Bowen moves from city of Washington to White House
  
  Remembering an icon
  
  Sculpture park aims to look honestly at slavery, honoring those who endured it
  
  A new generation of readers embraces bell hooks’ ‘All About Love’
  
  William DuBois ‘Duke’ Smither leaves a legacy of powerful storytelling
  
  Award-winning Norfolk journalist Marvin 'M.L.' Lake remembered
  
  Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar, ...
  
  Richmond native Willie Williams III passes away at 93
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  Personality: Earl Reid
  
  Personality: Viola Baskerville
  
  Personality: Linwood ‘Shawn’ Nelson
  
  Personality: Stephanie Spencer
  
  Review: ‘Quiet’ causes whispers for network TV
  
  Pharrell Williams project to film in Virginia
  
  Giancarlo Esposito always had leading man credentials, ‘Parish’ just makes it official
  
  VisArts hosts Richmond Poetry Fest
Sports
- Undefeated, unforgettable
  
  UConn beats Purdue to score 6th NCAA championship
  
  Cheyney women made NCAA ‘herstory’
  
  Devin George races with ambition, talent
  
  Top rookie: Is it Wemby or Holmgren?
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
  
  Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar, ...
  
  Hair care products founder Joe Dudley dies
  
  Big 10 football rivalry creates George Jewett Trophy
  
  Olympian and activist Lee Evans, who took iconic stand at 1968 Mexico City ...
  
  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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Danny Avula, who coordinated state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, is running for mayor

Dr. Danny Avula, a longtime public health leader who coordinated vaccination efforts under Gov. Ralph Northam and also served as ...

A new deal

The Richmond city government is pushing the idea of using special revenue bonds to finance the new Diamond Stadium and ...

After swearing off politics, Georgia activist now recruits people who seldom vote

Davante Jennings poses for a photo at the state Capitol on March 28 in Atlanta. Not long ago, Mr. Jennings was not even an active voter. He had given up on polictics after the 2016 presidential election — his first time voting. But he was targeted by the New Georgia Project ahead of the 2022 elections and now helps reach out to would be voters.

Davante Jennings cast his first ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Republican Donald Trump’s election that ...

Personality: Earl Reid

Earl Reid always knew he wanted to serve in the military, prompted in part by walking past the Military Retirees ...

William DuBois ‘Duke’ Smither leaves a legacy of powerful storytelling

Mr. Smither

Red Smith, the prominent sportswriter, once said that “writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up ...

Undefeated, unforgettable

South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley cuts down the net after the Final Four college
basketball championship game against Iowa in the women’s NCAA Tournament, Sunday,
April 7, in Cleveland. South Carolina won 87-75.

The University of South Carolina women’s basketball ended its season with the same number of losses it started with – ...

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