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.
For the sixth time since the deadly fascist gathering in nearby Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017, gun-toting, flag-waving pro-Confederates came to Richmond June 1 to rally in support of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue. And for the sixth time, antiracist Richmonders turned out to shout them down.
Union Hill is a small, rural, unincorporated community in Buckingham County, about an hour-and-a-half drive west of Richmond. Of all the places in Virginia, why has Dominion Energy targeted this community for the controversial compressor station it says it needs for its Atlantic Coast Pipeline?
An update on the situation of Shockoe Bottom, detailing the formation of the Shockoe Alliance and describing an upcoming Economic Impact and Benefits Study on the Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park.
The ACLU of Virginia, in collaboration with global law firm White & Case LLP, has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections seeking to end the practice of solitary confinement in two of VDOC’s most notorious prisons.
There was one overriding question that drew an overflow crowd July 17 to the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners meeting: “You tear down that housing, where are the people supposed to go?”
Back in the Sixties, H. Rap Brown was known as the fiery chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who famously declared that “Violence is as American as cherry pie.” Today his name is Imam Jamil Al-Amin, a respected Muslim leader and 75-year-old prisoner in the federal penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona, whom many supporters believe was framed on a 2000 murder charge.
More than half of all male trans teenagers have attempted suicide. That’s according to the new study “Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior” by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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