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Free at last

It is a bitter irony that the final weeks of the Richmond Free Press have also been among its most technologically significant.

Black History Month honors love as well as struggle by Ben Jealous

We keep Black History Month on one shelf and Valentine’s Day on another. One is supposed to be about pain and struggle; the other, about flowers and pastel sugary hearts.

Cost of normalized hate from the highest office by Barbara Reynolds

There are moments in American history when cruelty is not accidental — it is strategic.

Black workers bear the brunt of economic uncertainty by Julianne Malveaux

Labor economists like me mark our calendars for the first Friday of each month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases The Employment Situation.

Public walls carry public responsibility

As a former member of the City of Richmond Public Art Commission, a former president of the Richmond Crusade for Voters, and someone who has engaged in dialogue with muralists across the country, we are keenly aware of how public …

Parting shots

During the recent inauguration of the commonwealth’s first woman governor, former Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin turned his back on his successor, Abigail Spanberger, and walked up stairs that led out of the ceremony.

Black History Month a reminder of the power of coming together by Ben Jealous

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has emerged as a clarion voice for American democracy in turbulent times.

Info war rages amid Trump’s immigration chaos by Clarence Page

There’s something uncomfortably familiar about President Donald Trump’s jackboot approach to the immigration debate.

The First Amendment and Black journalists by Julianne Malveaux

Don Lemon knew he was going to be arrested.

Snow job

How about this weather?

Sorry, with a side of self-promo

The name Kanye West would have been at the top of a list of people I didn’t plan to write about this year, if I had time to keep track of things like that.

Why Black America must pay attention to global power by Julianne Malveaux

Black America is often told that foreign policy is distant, something for diplomats, generals and elites in places most of us will never see.

ICE killings in Minnesota expose a tyrannical agenda by David W. Marshall

What is happening in Minnesota should be the kind of wake-up call for Americans who still fail to recognize the truth about this administration and need to understand the grave situation we face as a nation.

Claudette Colvin’s story shows what is lost when history is erased by Marc H. Morial

When Claudette Colvin died this month, too many Americans learned her name for the first time in an obituary.

Burnout is breaking health care by Steve Forti

Americans are paying more for less when it comes to health care. One in five patients now waits more than two months to see a primary care doctor or specialist.

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