$33 million has been committed from the city of Richmond and the state of Virginia for the launch of the Shockoe Project, the working title for the 10-acre memorial park to be constructed on the site of what once was the epicenter of the U.S. domestic slave trade.
A northern Virginia-based company contracted by the federal government to run the immigrant detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is coming under intense scrutiny for its alleged abuse at other immigrant centers.
Upon his inauguration on Jan. 20, Trump and his administration immediately began extensive, widespread cuts to the federal workforce.
House Bill 2764 and its equivalent Senate Bill 917 made it through the General Assembly and to the governor’s desk. On March 24, Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed them.
On display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture from Nov. 23, 2024, to July 6, 2025: “This exhibit examines, through personal objects and oral histories, what Virginia’s soldiers, policy makers, families, activists, and Vietnamese migrants carried both physically and emotionally during the war and its aftermath.”
Our tribute to Farid Alan Schintzius.
A profile of several mutual aid organizations around the city.
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