“There can be no gainsaying of the fact that racism is still alive all over America. Racial injustice is still the Negro’s burden and America’…
“You know, sometimes we’re not prepared for adversity,” saxophonist Cannonball Adderley says during the intro to the 1966 soul-jazz classic ”M…
Over 20 years after an archaeological excavation uncovered a record of nearly a century of Black families who were enslaved on the Wilton Hous…
During the bleak times when he was struggling to stave off the demolition of his Fulton home, Spencer E. Jones III would return to 702 Denny S…
The original Lost Cause stands as a triumph of gaslighting, a distortion that disorients us to this day.
In 1947, workers at the University of Richmond discovered the remains of two people at a location said to be a burial ground for enslaved work…
William Tyler, 58, runs Sherwood Forest, the preserved home of John Tyler. He and his daughter Frances, 23, hold contrasting views of the form…
Richmond, Va. — 12/4/2010 — Rudolph balloon doesn't quite make it around the stop light, ends up with puncture wound to head.
The National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol represents our history in all its exclusion, contradiction and inequity.
Her hometown paved over its most painful history. Germany inscribed its horror stories in brass and laid them in cobblestones.
The last major flood of the James River in Richmond came 35 years ago in November 1985.
Four years ago, the national election was an afterthought as I obsessed over the Richmond mayoral contest. Levar Stoney defeated a field of ca…
Pet Memorial Park is located in a West End Neighborhood off of Terrell Road. The pet cemetery was established in 1935 and is the oldest in the…
We cannot liberate Richmond from its veneration of the Lost Cause until we emancipate the ground where the Robert E. Lee statue stands.
Clarence Lee of Chesterfield County has been casting ballots since the end of World War II, an era of poll taxes, literacy tests and other roa…
Here is a collection of photographs from the archive of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Jackson Ward and the rural Chesterfield County hamlet of Granite would appear to have little in common beyond being historically Black communities.
Tellingly, no perpetrators in this vast scheme to rob Black voters of their agency paid a price.
Asked Thursday for a response to "The Organ Thieves," a VCU Health spokeswoman directed me to a web page statement that reads in part: "We loo…
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” warns the iconic slogan of the United Negro College Fund. That applies to social justice movements.
First Baptist Church of South Richmond kicked off its bicentennial celebration on Sunday with a “Grand Illumination” in which the church’s sto…
On Sept. 5, 2005, VCU freshman Taylor Behl, 17, went missing after leaving her dorm.