A Defenders analysis on the campaign of progressive third-party candidate Princess Blanding.
PRINCESS BLANDING’S THIRD-PARTY RUN FOR VIRGINIA GOVERNOR: A DEFENDER ANALYSIS
Dec. 11 2020 Media Release on: Gov. Northam’s announcement of $9 million for Shockoe Bottom historical memorialization
Statement by the Virginia Defenders on Gov. Northam’s announcement of $9 million for Shockoe Bottom historical memorialization: There’s something missing.
CANDIDATE RESPONSES TO DEFENDER QUESTIONNAIRE
This newspaper sent the list of questions below to all candidates for Richmond mayor and city council, asking for simple yes or no answers. We received 12 responses. The results appear below.
COLLECTIVE ACTION CHALLENGES EVICTION ON RICHMOND’S NORTH SIDE
On the morning of Friday, Oct. 23, a multiracial crowd of some 75 people gathered outside the rental home of Katrina Pitt. The 56-year-old woman, who has a disability and survives on Social Security, was facing an eviction which would have put herself and five others on the street in the middle of the pandemic.
BORN IN STRUGGLE, RVA26 SERVES THE COMMUNITY
It’s an organization that was born in jail. Or, to be more specific, in a bus holding 26 people who were arrested May 31 while protesting the police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
REBELLION DEMANDS FACE STIFF OPPOSITION IN DEMOCRATIC-CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE
For the first time since 1993, the Democratic Party controls both houses of the state legislature and the governor’s mansion, but that still hasn’t resulted in the critical police-abuse reforms demanded by thousands of Richmond anti-racist protesters.
The COVID-19 Richmond jail crisis that could have been avoided
by Phil Wilayto RICHMOND, VA, Sept. 8 — “Some terrible mistake was made along the way.” That was how a federal judge described the recent massive COVID-19 outbreak at a private immigrant […]
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