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Holding vape shops accountable is a step toward safer communities
After reading the article in the Richmond Free Press entitled “Blowback,” I thank all the officials who have worked diligently …
Jill Scott announces sixth studio album
Jill Scott is returning to music with her sixth studio album, “To Whom This May Concern,” set for release Feb. …
Richmond Symphony to perform Damien Geter’s ‘African American Requiem’
Audiences at the Carpenter Theatre on Jan. 17 will have a chance to experience music that asks them to listen …
Exhibit of Wilder’s watercolors to benefit scholarship fund
Visitors to the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia will get a closer look at L. Douglas Wilder’s …
Local poet wins Tanka Deathmatch at library
Dorothy Marie Rice, a 77-year-old retired Richmond Public Schools teacher and practicing poet, earned first place in a Tanka Deathmatch …
Why the rise of ‘AI Jesus’ demands a moral response from the church by Barbara Reynolds
Sooner rather than later, there must be an outcry that technology has crossed a sacred line. A growing wave of …