Established in 2005 as The Richmond Defender, The Virginia Defender is a free community newspaper, published quarterly for the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality. Print distribution is currently 12,000 and statewide. The online publication launched in Summer 2020.
Another man wrongfully convicted due to the misconduct of former Norfolk detective Robert Glenn Ford has recently received a full exoneration. Jermaine Doss, who was likewise framed by Ford, will soon have a parole hearing.
An update on the Starbucks unionization campaign, which has just organized its 200th store in Cleveland, Ohio. Despite repression and retaliation, the movement continues to grow.
On July 25, Richmond City became the fifth locality in Virginia to adopt a local public sector collective bargaining ordinance.
United Parents Against Lead and the Virginia Environmental Justice Coalition have opened a new community center, the Community Resiliency Hub, in the Heights neighborhood of Petersburg.
If you’re one of those people who think museums have to be boring, you need to drop by the Branch Museum and check out its new exhibit, (RE)FRAMING PROTEST – design + hope, featuring 89 photographs that document the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
Our statement in solidarity with The Mapping Project and the members of Boston BDS, who face attack for opposing the occupation of Palestine and its intersection with Western imperialism.
The charge of felony assault on a police officer was dropped today in the case of Alecia Nelson, a Black woman who on March 7 was injured while being arrested by a white Richmond police officer after being falsely accused of shoplifting at the Family Dollar store on Westover Hills Boulevard on Richmond’s South Side.
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